Hydrology and Earth System Sciences www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net 1027-5606 1607-7938 13 3 2009 10.5194/hess-13-367-2009 http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/13/367/2009/ http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/13/367/2009/hess-13-367-2009.html http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/13/367/2009/hess-13-367-2009.pdf 367 380 2009-03-18 Calibration and sequential updating of a coupled hydrologic-hydraulic model using remote sensing-derived water stages M. Montanari montanar@lippmann.lu R. Hostache P. Matgen G. Schumann L. Pfister L. Hoffmann Centre de Recherche Public – Gabriel Lippmann, 4422, Belvaux, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, BS81SS, UK Two of the most relevant components of any flood forecasting system, namely the rainfall-runoff and flood inundation models, increasingly benefit from the availability of spatially distributed Earth Observation data. With the advent of microwave remote sensing instruments and their all weather capabilities, new opportunities have emerged over the past decade for improved hydrologic and hydraulic model calibration and validation. However, the usefulness of remote sensing observations in coupled hydrologic and hydraulic models still requires further investigations. Radar remote sensing observations are readily available to provide information on flood extent. Moreover, the fusion of radar imagery and high precision digital elevation models allows estimating distributed water levels. With a view to further explore the potential offered by SAR images, this paper investigates the usefulness of remote sensing-derived water stages in a modelling sequence where the outputs of hydrologic models (rainfall-runoff models) serve as boundary condition of flood inundation models. The methodology consists in coupling a simplistic 3-parameter conceptual rainfall-runoff model with a 1-D flood inundation model. 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