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@ARTICLE{Fang:820862,
author = {Fang, Zhufeng and Bogena, Heye and Kollet, Stefan and
Vereecken, Harry},
title = {{S}cale dependent parameterization of soil hydraulic
conductivity in 3{D} simulation of hydrological processes in
a forested headwater catchment},
journal = {Journal of hydrology},
volume = {536},
issn = {0022-1694},
address = {Amsterdam [u.a.]},
publisher = {Elsevier},
reportid = {FZJ-2016-06126},
pages = {365 - 375},
year = {2016},
abstract = {In distributed hydrological modelling one often faces the
problem that input data need to be aggregated to match the
model resolution. However, aggregated data may be too coarse
for the parametrization of the processes represented. This
dilemma can be circumvented by the adjustment of certain
model parameters. For instance, the reduction of local
hydraulic gradients due to spatial aggregation can be
partially compensated by increasing soil hydraulic
conductivity. In this study, we employed the information
entropy concept for the scale dependent parameterization of
soil hydraulic conductivity. The loss of information content
of terrain curvature as consequence of spatial aggregation
was used to determine an amplification factor for soil
hydraulic conductivity to compensate the resulting
retardation of water flow. To test the usefulness of this
approach, continuous 3D hydrological simulations were
conducted with different spatial resolutions in the highly
instrumented Wüstebach catchment, Germany. Our results
indicated that the introduction of an amplification factor
can effectively improve model performances both in terms of
soil moisture and runoff simulation. However, comparing
simulated soil moisture pattern with observation indicated
that uniform application of an amplification factor can lead
to local overcorrection of soil hydraulic conductivity. This
problem could be circumvented by applying the amplification
factor only to model grid cells that suffer from high
information loss. To this end, we tested two schemes to
define appropriate location-specific correction factors.
Both schemes led to improved model performance both in terms
of soil water content and runoff simulation. Thus, we
anticipate that our proposed scaling approach is useful for
the application of next-generation hyper-resolution global
land surface models},
cin = {IBG-3},
ddc = {690},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-3-20101118},
pnm = {255 - Terrestrial Systems: From Observation to Prediction
(POF3-255)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-255},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000374811200030},
doi = {10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.03.020},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/820862},
}