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- Title
Toward improved streamflow forecasts: value of semidistributed modeling.
- Authors
Boyle, Douglas P.; Gupta, Hoshin V.; Sorooshian, Soroosh; Koren, Victor; Zhang, Ziya; Smith, Michael
- Abstract
The focus of this study is to assess the performance improvements of semidistributed applications of the U.S. National Weather Service Sacramento Soil Moisture Accounting model on a watershed using radar-based remotely sensed precipitation data. Specifically, performance comparisons are made within an automated multicriteria calibration framework to evaluate the benefit of 'spatial distribution' of the model input (precipitation), structural components (soil moisture and streamflow routing computations), and surface characteristics (parameters). A comparison of these results is made with those obtained through manual calibration. Results indicate that for the study watershed, there are performance improvements associated with semidistributed model applications when the watershed is partitioned into three subwatersheds; however, no additional benefit is gained from increasing the number of subwatersheds from three to eight. Improvements in model performance are demonstrably related to the spatial distribution of the model input and streamflow routing. Surprisingly, there is no improvement associated with the distribution of the surface characteristics (model parameters).
- Publication
Water Resources Research, 2001, Vol 37, Issue 11, p2749
- ISSN
0043-1397
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1029/2000WR000207