Abstract:
The landscape holds the key to rainfall-runoff analysis. The landscape is the result of co-evolution with climate, geological substrate, ecosystem and hydrology. The landscape thus holds information on the dominant runoff mechanism, both on and under the ground. The art is to read the relevant properties from the landscape and translate these into model characteristics and properties. In this talk, I shall present new ways to read model structural properties from the landscape, which help to build more realistic model structures. These landscape based model structures provide opportunities to include realism conditions to model structural elements and allow attaching physical meaning to parameters. As a result these models are better able to up-scale and down-scale catchment properties and even to transfer model structures to poorly gauged catchments.
In addition I shall prepare a new approach to size the unsaturated reservoirs of landscape models on the basis of ecosystem and climate characteristics. With this method the most crucial model parameter of hydrological models can be estimated on the basis of independently available information.
Information on participating / attending:
siehe http://www.kv-reihe.kit.edu/
Date:
06/18/2015 17:30 - 06/18/2015 19:00
Event venue:
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT),
KIT-Campus Süd,
Otto-Ammann-Platz 1,
Gebäude 10.81,
Raum 59
76131 Karlsruhe
Baden-Württemberg
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, Students
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Construction / architecture, Environment / ecology, Geosciences
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture
Entry:
06/15/2015
Sender/author:
Inge Arnold
Department:
Presse, Kommunikation und Marketing
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event51235
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