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@ARTICLE{Montzka:62066,
author = {Montzka, C. and Canty, M. J. and Kunkel, R. and Menz, G.
and Vereecken, H. and Wendland, F.},
title = {{M}odelling the water balance of a mesoscale catchment
basin using remotely sensed land cover data},
journal = {Journal of hydrology},
volume = {353},
issn = {0022-1694},
address = {Amsterdam [u.a.]},
publisher = {Elsevier},
reportid = {PreJuSER-62066},
pages = {322 - 334},
year = {2008},
note = {Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012},
abstract = {Hydrological modelling of mesoscale catchments is often
adversely affected by a tack of adequate information about
specific site conditions. In particular, digital land cover
data are available from data sets which were acquired on a
European or a national scale. These data sets do not only
exhibit a restricted spatial resolution but also a
differentiation of crops and impervious areas which is not
appropriate to the needs of mesoscale hydrological models.
In this paper, the impact of remote sensing data on the
reliability of a water balance model is investigated and
compared to model results determined on the basis of CORINE
(Coordination of Information on the Environment) Land Cover
as a reference. The aim is to quantify the improved model
performance achieved by an enhanced land cover
representation and corresponding model. modifications.
Making use of medium resolution satellite imagery from SPOT,
LANDSAT ETM+ and ASTER, detailed information on land cover,
especially agricultural crops and impervious surfaces, was
extracted over a 5-year period (2000-2004). Crop-specific
evapotranspiration coefficients were derived by using remote
sensing data to replace grass reference evapotranspiration
necessitated by the use of CORINE land cover for rural
areas. For regions classified as settlement or industrial
areas, degrees of imperviousness were derived. The data were
incorporated into the hydrological model. GROWA (large-scale
water balance model.), which uses an empirical approach
combining distributed meteorological data with distributed
site parameters to calculate the annual runoff components.
Using satellite imagery in combination with runoff data from
gauging stations for the years 2000-2004, the actual
evapotranspiration calculation in GROWA was methodologically
extended by including empirical crop coefficients for actual
evapotranspiration calculations. While GROWA originally
treated agricultural areas as homogeneous, now a
consideration and differentiation of the main crops is
possible. The accuracy was determined by runoff measurements
from gauging stations. Differences in water balances
resulting from the use of remote sensing data as opposed to
CORINE were analysed in this study using a representative
subcatchment. Resulting Nash-Sutcliff model efficiencies
improved from 0.372 to 0.775 and indicate that the enhanced
model can produce thematically more accurate and spatially
more detailed local water balances. However, the proposed
model enhancements by satellite imagery have not exhausted
the full potential of water balance modelling, for which a
higher temporal resolution is required. (c) 2008 Elsevier
B.V. All rights reserved.},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {ICG-4 / JARA-ENERGY / JARA-SIM},
ddc = {690},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)VDB793 / $I:(DE-82)080011_20140620$ /
I:(DE-Juel1)VDB1045},
pnm = {Terrestrische Umwelt},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK407},
shelfmark = {Engineering, Civil / Geosciences, Multidisciplinary / Water
Resources},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000255990300008},
doi = {10.1016/j.jhydrol.2008.02.018},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/62066},
}