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Legacy, Rather Than Adequacy, Drives the Selection of Hydrological Models

Nans Addor, Lieke Melsen

Water Resources Research · 2018

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Abstract The findings of hydrological modeling studies depend on which model was used. Although hydrological model selection is a crucial step, experience suggests that hydrologists tend to stick to the model they have experience with, and rarely switch to competing models, although these models might be more adequate given the study objectives. To gain quantitative insights into model selection, we explored the use of seven rainfall‐runoff models based on the abstract of 1,529 peer‐reviewed papers published between 1991 and 2018. The models selected were the Hydrologiska Byråns Vattenbalansavdelning model (HBV), the Variable Infiltration Capacity model (VIC), the mesoscale Hydrological model (mHM), the TOPography‐based hydrologic model (TOPMODEL), the Precipitation Runoff Modelling System

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Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1029/2018wr022958
Catalogue ID
SNmokeh0oc-hdbnkh
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