Articles | Volume 23, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-1593-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-1593-2019
Research article
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19 Mar 2019
Research article |  | 19 Mar 2019

Evaluating seasonal hydrological extremes in mesoscale (pre-)Alpine basins at coarse 0.5° and fine hyperresolution

Joost Buitink, Remko Uijlenhoet, and Adriaan J. Teuling

Data sets

Regridded Harmonized World Soil Database v1.2. Data set W. R. Wieder, J. Boehnert, G. B. Bonan, and M. Langseth https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1247

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Short summary
This study describes how the spatial resolution of hydrological models affects the model results. The high-resolution model allowed for more spatial variability than the low-resolution model. As a result, the low-resolution model failed to capture most variability that was simulated with the high-resolution model. This has implications for the interpretation of results carried out at coarse resolutions, as they may fail to represent the local small-scale variability.