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| Journal Article | FZJ-2023-00566 |
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2023
Copernicus
Katlenburg-Lindau
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Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.5194/gmd-2022-173 doi:10.34734/FZJ-2023-00566
Abstract: High-resolution large-scale predictions of hydrologic states and fluxes are important for many multi-scale applications including water resource management. However, many of the existing global to continental scale hydrological models are applied at coarse resolution and or neglect lateral surface and groundwater flow, thereby not capturing smaller scale hydrologic processes. Applications of high-resolution and more complex models are often limited to watershed scales, neglecting the mesoscale climate effects on the water cycle. We implemented an integrated, physically-based coupled land surface groundwater model; Parflow-CLM version 3.6.0, over a pan-European model domain at 0.0275° ( 3 km) resolution. The model simulates three-dimensional variably saturated groundwater flow solving Richards equation and overland flow with a two-dimensional kinematic wave approximation, which is fully integrated with land surface exchange processes. A comprehensive evaluation of hydrologic states and fluxes, resulting from a 10 year (1997–2006) model simulation, was performed using in-situ and remote sensing observations including discharge, surface soil moisture (SM), evapotranspiration (ET), snow water equivalent and water table depth. Overall, the uncalibrated PF-CLM-EU3km model shows good agreement in simulating river discharge for 176 gauging stations across Europe. Comparison with satellite-based datasets of SM shows that PF-CLM-EU3km performs well in semi-arid and arid regions, but simulates overall higher SM in humid and cold regions. Comparisons with Global Land Evaporation Amsterdam Model(GLEAM) and Global Land Surface Satellite (GLASS) ET datasets show no significant differences, both, across the European domain (on average the difference is -0.09 and 0.30 mm d-1 for GLEAM and GLASS products, respectively), and within regions (R > 0.9). The large-scale high-resolution setup forms a basis for future studies, demonstrating the added value of capturing heterogeneities for improved water and energy flux simulations in physically-based fully distributed hydrologic models over very large model domains. This study also provides an evaluation reference for climate change impact projections and a climatology for hydrological forecasting, considering the effects of lateral surface and groundwater flows.
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