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DOI10.1029/2017WR022466
Improved Rainfall-Runoff Calibration for Drying Climate: Choice of Objective Function
Fowler, Keirnan1; Peel, Murray1; Western, Andrew1; Zhang, Lu2
2018-05-01
发表期刊WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
ISSN0043-1397
EISSN1944-7973
出版年2018
卷号54期号:5页码:3392-3408
文章类型Article
语种英语
国家Australia
英文摘要

It has been widely shown that rainfall-runoff models often provide poor and biased simulations after a change in climate, but evidence suggests existing models may be capable of better simulations if calibration strategies are improved. Common practice is to use "least squares''-type objective functions, which focus on hydrological behavior during high flows. However, simulation of a drying climate may require a more balanced consideration of other parts of the flow regime, including mid-low flows and drier years in the calibration period, as a closer analogue of future conditions. Here we systematically test eight objective functions over 86 catchments and five conceptual model structures in southern and eastern Australia. We focus on performance when evaluated over multiyear droughts. The results show significant improvements are possible compared to least squares calibration. In particular, the Refined Index of Agreement (based on sum of absolute error, not sum of squared error) and a new objective function called the Split KGE (which gives equal weight to each year in the calibration series) give significantly better split-sample results than least squares approaches. This improvement held for all five model structures, regardless of basin characteristics such as slope, vegetation, and across a range of climatic conditions (e.g., mean precipitation between 500 and 1,500 mm/yr). We recommend future studies to avoid least squares approaches (e.g., optimizing NSE or KGE with no prior transformation on streamflow) and adopt these alternative methods, wherever simulations in a drying climate are required.


Plain Language Summary Rainfall-runoff models are useful tools in water resource planning under climate change. They are commonly used to quantify the impact of changes in climatic variables, such as rainfall, on water availability for human consumption or environmental needs. Many parts of the world are projected to be substantially drier, possibly with threatened water resources. Given the importance of water, reliable tools for understanding future water availability are vital for society. However, literature would suggest that the current generation of rainfall-runoff models is not reliable when applied in changing climatic conditions, underestimating the sensitivity of runoff to a given change in precipitation. Many hydrologists have assumed deficiencies in the underlying model equations are to blame. However, this paper demonstrates significant improvement without changing model equations, by using a different "objective function.'' The objective function defines how the model is "tuned'' to observations of river discharge, and this article identifies objective functions that tend to make model simulations more robust when applied in a drying climate. Using these objective functions can improve the accuracy and plausibility of future water availability estimates made for climate change impact studies.


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收录类别SCI-E
WOS记录号WOS:000442351300010
WOS关键词HYDROLOGICAL MODELS ; WATER-RESOURCES ; SOIL-MOISTURE ; EVOLUTION STRATEGY ; MULTIYEAR DROUGHT ; GLOBAL CLIMATE ; CHANGE IMPACT ; AUSTRALIA ; UNCERTAINTY ; STREAMFLOW
WOS类目Environmental Sciences ; Limnology ; Water Resources
WOS研究方向Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Marine & Freshwater Biology ; Water Resources
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被引频次:69[WOS]   [WOS记录]     [WOS相关记录]
文献类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/21522
专题资源环境科学
作者单位1.Univ Melbourne, Dept Infrastruct Engn, Melbourne, Vic, Australia;
2.CSIRO, Land & Water, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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Fowler, Keirnan,Peel, Murray,Western, Andrew,et al. Improved Rainfall-Runoff Calibration for Drying Climate: Choice of Objective Function[J]. WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH,2018,54(5):3392-3408.
APA Fowler, Keirnan,Peel, Murray,Western, Andrew,&Zhang, Lu.(2018).Improved Rainfall-Runoff Calibration for Drying Climate: Choice of Objective Function.WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH,54(5),3392-3408.
MLA Fowler, Keirnan,et al."Improved Rainfall-Runoff Calibration for Drying Climate: Choice of Objective Function".WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH 54.5(2018):3392-3408.
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