15:45. Conceptual modelling
of individual HRU’s as a trade-off between bottom-up and top-down
modelling, a case study, Rudi van den Bos
The Prediction in Ungauged Basins (PUB) Initiative (http://cee.uiuc.edu/research/pub/) is a major international program of the IAHS (http://www.cig.ensmp.fr/~iahs/) aimed at reducing the uncertainty in predicting water and contaminant fluxes at ungauged sites. While there has already been considerable research into predicting fluxes at ungauged sites, results have been typically poor due to limitations in both models and data used.
The focus of this session is on the development of new models (PUB science theme 6). Contributions addressing this problem from the top-down and bottom-up approaches (or a combination of the two) are strongly encouraged. This includes developments based on the analysis of existing models or development of new models from theory and/or field data. Contributions related to the development of new datasets (e.g. using remote sensing techniques) and techniques for estimating parameter values for ungauged sites are also welcome. As the aim of PUB is to reduce predictive uncertainty, all authors are strongly encouraged to discuss the uncertainty in their results, techniques, models or data.
This session is targeted at addressing (at least partially) the first of these, with a focus on development of improved models through a merging of the top-down and bottom-up approaches.
Can the understanding of catchment-scale behaviour represented in top-down models be combined with the process understanding built into bottom-up models to provide a reduction in predictive uncertainty for ungauged basins?
Contact: Barry Croke, barry.croke@anu.edu.au
Part 1, Tuesday 15:45 - 17:30
15:45. Conceptual modelling
of individual HRU’s as a trade-off between bottom-up and top-down
modelling, a case study, Rudi van den Bos
16:00. The Use of Inductive
and Deductive Reasoning to Model Snowmelt Runoff from Northern Mountain
Catchments, Pablo Dornes
16:15. Modeling Soil-Water
Dynamics for Diverse Environmental Needs, Pierre Martin
16:30. Comparison of
Top-Down and Bottom-Up Models for Simulation of Water Balance as
affected by Seasonality, Vegetation Type and Spatial Land Use, Enli
Wang
16:45. Evaluation of a physically based distributed
hydrological model, BTOPMC, for different physiographic zones of Nepal,
Sangam Shrestha
17:00. Uncertainty analysis
associated with Rainfall Spatial Distribution in an Experimental
Semiarid Watershed, Northeastern Brazil, Lucio Flavio
Ferreira Moreira
17:15. Hydrological characterisation of four
Brazilian
catchments using a simple rainfall-streamflow model, Ian Littlewood
9:45. Consistency versus Optimality in
Environmental Model Identification under Uncertainty, Thorsten Wagener
10:00. Preliminary Indications of the
Transferability of IHACRES Model Parameters in Mountainous Rainfall
Driven Rivers, Paul Whitfield
10:15. River Flow Simulation
within Ungauged Catchments in Lebanon using a semi-distributed
rainfall-runoff model, Antoine Hreiche
10:30. Regionalization of IHACRES Model Parameters
for In-tegrated Assessment across the Lake Erie, northern Ohio USA
basin, Richard Anderson
10:45.
Development of a National, Landuse-Based Water Balance Model for Australia, Wendy Welsh
11:15. Model averaging, equifinality and uncertainty estimation in the modelling of ungauged catchments. Julian Reichl, Francis Chiew, Andrew Western
11:30.
Rainfall–streamflow–air temperature datasets (and catchment
information) available internationally to assist with PUB Decade
top-down modelling, Barry Croke
11:45. Deriving a
spatially-explicit hillslope sediment delivery ratio model based on the
travel time of water across a hillslope, David Post
12:00. Questions and general discussion