Journal article
Monthly versus daily water balance models in simulating monthly runoff
QJ Wang, TC Pagano, SL Zhou, HAP Hapuarachchi, L Zhang, DE Robertson
Journal of Hydrology | ELSEVIER | Published : 2011
Abstract
A monthly water partition and balance model, Wapaba, based on the Budyko framework model is introduced and applied to over three hundred Australian catchments. The model uses consumption curves to partition water to a number of components according to supply and demand and to represent spatial and temporal heterogeneity of catchment processes in a parsimonious formulation. The Wapaba model was benchmarked against the well known abcd monthly water balance model as well as the original monthly Budyko framework model and found to outperform both on the Australian catchments. The Wapaba model was also compared with two daily water balance models widely used in Australia. It had validation perfor..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was completed as part of the Water Information Research and Development Alliance (WIRADA), a collaboration between CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology to facilitate the transfer of research to operations. The work was partly funded by the CSIRO OCE Science Leader Scheme. Alison Oke of the Water Division of the Bureau of Meteorology and Dr Francis Chiew of CSIRO Land and Water provided some of the data and model algorithms for this work. Neil Plummer of the Water Division of the Bureau of Meteorology and Dr Francis Chiew and Dr Nick Potter of CSIRO Land and Water made valuable comments on an early draft of the manuscript. Two anonymous reviewers made insightful suggestions.