Model development based on an ecohydrologial catchment unit concept

01.02.2010 - 30.06.2011
Research funding project
The current project is designed as a first step in the development of a framework for water balance and runoff process modelling for basins with diverse landscape and bioclimatic characteristics at the regional scale. It will concentrate on a first testing of project ideas and concepts. This includes the analysis of possible process control characteristics on the various scales, from the small to the regional scale, in selected catchments with distinct climatic and hydrological landscape conditions. In a first step of analysis different ¿hydrotope¿ classifications will be tested in a set of model simulations to study how they reproduce observable runoff process characteristics such as event runoff coefficients, runoff component composition, and runoff/evapotranspiration ratios for different hydro-climatological and landscape situations. The results of such a comparative study are expected to yield hints on the appropriate choice of parameters that are indicative of the control mechanisms that govern runoff production under different conditions.

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Grant funds

  • Österr. Akademie der Wissenschaften (National) Austrian Academy of Sciences

Research focus

  • Risk based Design: 20%
  • Environmental Monitoring and Climate Adaptation: 60%
  • Modeling and Simulation: 20%

Keywords

GermanEnglish
Niederschlag-Abfluss-ModelleRainfall runoff models
ModellstrukturModel structure
WasserbilanzWater balance
SkalenfrageScale issues

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