Evaluation of the fully coupled WRF and WRF-Hydro modelling system initiated with satellite-based soil moisture data

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2024-04-19

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Duzenli, Eren
Yücel, İsmail
Yılmaz, Mehmet

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This study comparatively evaluates the skill of the (un)coupled Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) - WRF-Hydro system supported with satellite-based soil moisture initiation in long-term simulations of hydrometeorological variables under humid and semi-arid climate conditions. Prior to the coupling, the WRF-Hydro model is calibrated using streamflow data at different data scales (i.e. hourly and daily) to discuss the influences of the changing temporal resolution of the reference dataset on the optimum parameter values. According to the results, fully coupled models correct the location and magnitude of the occurrence of hourly extreme precipitation. Changing the initial soil moisture data source affects the terrestrial water cycle elements in the semi-arid region (i.e. Mediterranean (MED)) more than in the humid area (i.e. Eastern Black Sea (EBS)), especially in spring and summer. The initiation of the coupled model with satellite-based soil moisture improves the streamflow outputs after a reasonable spin-up period for the MED region.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/109597

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