Runoff from the Swiss mountains is important for hydropower, but also for water availability in Switzerland and many other downstream countries including The Netherlands. In two recent papers, Muelchi and co-workers investigated runoff under future changes in temperature and precipitation. Runoff in mountainous areas is highly sensitive to temperature, precipitation, …
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New model for computationally efficient modeling of floods and droughts
Many distributed hydrological models are computationally demanding, limiting their use in calibration, sensitivity analysis, or scenario analysis. Based on the theory that many catchments behave essentially as simple dynamical systems, Joost Buitink recently developed a distributed model that does not have this limitation and can be run on a normal …
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