Improving the Xin'anjiang hydrological model based on mass–energy balance

Fang, Yuan-Hao; Zhang, Xingnan; Corbari, Chiara; Mancini, Marco; Niu, Guo-Yue; Zeng, Wenzhi

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-3359-2017

Articles | Volume 21, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-3359-2017

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Modeling hydrological processes and changes

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-3359-2017

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Articles | Volume 21, issue 7

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07 Jul 2017

Research article |

| 07 Jul 2017

Improving the Xin'anjiang hydrological model based on mass–energy balance

Yuan-Hao Fang, Xingnan Zhang, Chiara Corbari, Marco Mancini, Guo-Yue Niu, and Wenzhi Zeng

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Final revised paper (published on 07 Jul 2017)
Preprint (discussion started on 04 Nov 2016)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review Comments', James Ball, 12 Jan 2017
- AC1: 'Reply to Review Comments 1', Xingnan Zhang, 09 Apr 2017
- AC4: 'revised manuscript with track changes', Xingnan Zhang, 09 Apr 2017
RC2: 'Good article with minor issues', Anonymous Referee #2, 06 Feb 2017
- AC2: 'Reply to Review Comments 2', Xingnan Zhang, 09 Apr 2017
AC3: 'revised manuscript', Xingnan Zhang, 09 Apr 2017
AC5: 'revised manuscript with track changes', Xingnan Zhang, 09 Apr 2017

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish as is (14 Apr 2017) by Yangbo Chen

AR by Xingnan Zhang on behalf of the Authors (23 Apr 2017)

Short summary

Soil moisture and evapotranspiration (ET) are important to flood forecasting. An energy balance scheme based on the representative temperature (RET) was developed and coupled to the original mass balance scheme of the Xin'anjiang model. Validation against both runoff and land surface temperature confirmed the accuracy and applicability of the improved model (XAJ-EB). RET serves as a new constraint to the model and can be used for model calibration and validation.