PERSiST: a flexible rainfall-runoff modelling toolkit for use with the INCA family of models
Runoff generation processes and pathways vary widely between catchments. Credible simulations of solute and pollutant transport in surface waters are dependent on models which facilitate appropriate, catchment-specific representations of perceptual models of the runoff generation process. Here, we p...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2014-02-01
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| Series: | Hydrology and Earth System Sciences |
| Online Access: | http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/18/855/2014/hess-18-855-2014.pdf |
| Summary: | Runoff generation processes and pathways vary widely between catchments.
Credible simulations of solute and pollutant transport in surface waters are
dependent on models which facilitate appropriate, catchment-specific
representations of perceptual models of the runoff generation process. Here,
we present a flexible, semi-distributed landscape-scale rainfall-runoff
modelling toolkit suitable for simulating a broad range of user-specified
perceptual models of runoff generation and stream flow occurring in different
climatic regions and landscape types. PERSiST (the Precipitation,
Evapotranspiration and Runoff Simulator for Solute Transport) is designed for
simulating present-day hydrology; projecting possible future effects of
climate or land use change on runoff and catchment water storage; and
generating hydrologic inputs for the Integrated Catchments (INCA) family of
models. PERSiST has limited data requirements and is calibrated using
observed time series of precipitation, air temperature and runoff at one or
more points in a river network. Here, we apply PERSiST to the river Thames in
the UK and describe a Monte Carlo tool for model calibration, sensitivity and
uncertainty analysis. |
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| ISSN: | 1027-5606 1607-7938 |