IHACRES Elevation Bands Calibration

copyrights (c) 2008 Stefan Liersch
The Rainfall-Runoff Model IHACRES


Reference:

Jakeman, A.J. / Hornberger, G.M. (1993).
How Much Complexity Is Warranted in a Rainfall-Runoff Model?
Water Resources Research, (29), NO. 8 (2637-2649)

Kokkonen, T. S. et al. (2003).
Predicting daily flows in ungauged catchments:model regionalization from catchment descriptorsat the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, North Carolina
Hydrological Processes (17), 2219-2238

Croke, B. F. W., W. S. Merritt, et al. (2004).
A dynamic model for predicting hydrologic responseto land cover changes in gauged andungauged catchments.
Journal Of Hydrology 291(1-2): 115-131.

Parameters

Table
Output Data Object
Table
Output Data Object
Number of elevation bands
Choice
Available choices: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Number of Simulations
Integer
Number of Simulations for Calibration
Minimum: 1.0; Maximum: 10000000.0
Total Catchment Area [km2]
Floating point
IHACRES Version
Node
IHACRES Version
Choice
Available choices: Jakeman & Hornberger (1993), Croke et al. (2005) !!! not yet implemented !!!
Storage Configuration
Node
Storage
Choice
Available choices: Single Storage, Two Parallel Storages, Two Storages in Series !!! not yet implemented !!!
Using the snow-melt module?
Boolean
If checked, snow-melt module is used.
Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency
Node
Objective Function
Choice
Available choices: NSE, NSE high flow, NSE low flow
Minimum Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency
Floating point
Minimum Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency required to print simulation to calibration table
Minimum: 0.1; Maximum: 1.0