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Distributed synthesis and stability of cooperative distributed model predictive control for linear systems Open
This paper presents a new formulation and synthesis approach for stabilizing cooperative distributed model predictive control (MPC) for networks of linear systems, which are coupled in their dynamics. The controller is defined by a network…
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Improving flood forecasting capability of physically based distributed hydrological models by parameter optimization Open
Physically based distributed hydrological models (hereafter referred to as PBDHMs) divide the terrain of the whole catchment into a number of grid cells at fine resolution and assimilate different terrain data and precipitation to differen…
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Distributed Generation Market Demand Model (dGen): Documentation Open
The Distributed Generation Market Demand model (dGen) is a geospatially rich, bottom-up, market-penetration model that simulates the potential adoption of distributed energy resources (DERs) for residential, commercial, and industrial enti…
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The importance of topography-controlled sub-grid process heterogeneity and semi-quantitative prior constraints in distributed hydrological models Open
Heterogeneity of landscape features like terrain, soil, and vegetation properties affects the partitioning of water and energy. However, it remains unclear to what extent an explicit representation of this heterogeneity at the sub-grid sca…
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The Canadian Hydrological Model (CHM) v1.0: a multi-scale, multi-extent, variable-complexity hydrological model – design and overview Open
Despite debate in the rainfall–runoff hydrology literature about the merits of physics-based and spatially distributed models, substantial work in cold-region hydrology has shown improved predictive capacity by including physics-based proc…
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Scale effect challenges in urban hydrology highlighted with a distributed hydrological model Open
Hydrological models are extensively used in urban water management, development and evaluation of future scenarios and research activities. There is a growing interest in the development of fully distributed and grid-based models. However,…
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Large-watershed flood forecasting with high-resolution distributed hydrological model Open
A distributed hydrological model has been successfully used in small-watershed flood forecasting, but there are still challenges for the application in a large watershed, one of them being the model's spatial resolution effect. To cope wit…
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Modeling Post‐Wildfire Hydrologic Response: Review and Future Directions for Applications of Physically Based Distributed Simulation Open
Wildfire is a growing concern as climate shifts. The hydrologic effects of wildfire, which include elevated hazards and changes in water quantity and quality, are increasingly assessed using numerical models. Post‐wildfire application of p…
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How much can we gain with increasing model complexity with the same model concepts? Open
The main purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis that, with appropriate structures, increasing model complexity with the same model concepts would lead to an increase in the model efficiency in simulating either runoff or internal …
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The role and value of distributed precipitation data in hydrological models Open
This study investigates the role and value of distributed rainfall for the runoff generation of a mesoscale catchment (20 km2). We compare four hydrological model setups and show that a distributed model setup driven by distributed rainfal…
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Effects of input discretization, model complexity, and calibration strategy on model performance in a data‐scarce glacierized catchment in Central Asia Open
Glacierized high‐mountainous catchments are often the water towers for downstream region, and modeling these remote areas are often the only available tool for the assessment of water resources availability. Nevertheless, data scarcity aff…
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Output Synchronization of Unknown Heterogeneous Agents via Distributed Model Reference Adaptation Open
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Evaluating the Performance of HEC-HMS and SWAT Hydrological Models in Simulating the Rainfall-Runoff Process for Data Scarce Region of Ethiopian Rift Valley Lake Basin Open
A number of physically-based and distributed watershed models have been developed to model the hydrology of the watershed. For a specific watershed, selecting the most suitable hydrological model is necessary to obtain good simulated resul…
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Spatial variability of the parameters of a semi-distributed hydrological model Open
Ideally, semi-distributed hydrologic models should provide better streamflow simulations than lumped models, along with spatially-relevant water resources management solutions. However, the spatial distribution of model parameters raises i…
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Incorporating the Effects of Complex Soil Layering and Thickness Local Variability into Distributed Landslide Susceptibility Assessments Open
Incorporating the influence of soil layering and local variability into the parameterizations of physics-based numerical models for distributed landslide susceptibility assessments remains a challenge. Typical applications employ substanti…
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A hydrological emulator for global applications – HE v1.0.0 Open
While global hydrological models (GHMs) are very useful in exploring water resources and interactions between the Earth and human systems, their use often requires numerous model inputs, complex model calibration, and high computation cost…
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Identifying Key Hydrological Processes in Highly Urbanized Watersheds for Flood Forecasting with a Distributed Hydrological Model Open
The world has experienced large-scale urbanization in the past century, and this trend is ongoing. Urbanization not only causes land use/cover (LUC) changes but also changes the flood responses of watersheds. Lumped conceptual hydrological…
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Thermodynamics in the hydrologic response: Travel time formulation and application to <span>A</span>lpine catchments Open
This paper presents a spatially explicit model for hydrothermal response simulations of Alpine catchments, accounting for advective and nonadvective energy fluxes in stream networks characterized by arbitrary degrees of geomorphological co…
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Comparison Of Two Hydrological Models (Lumped And Distributed) Over A Pilot Area Of The Issen Watershed In The Souss Basin, Morocco Open
The present study aims to develop a hydrological model of flood forecasting to arid environment in the Issen basin (sub-chatchement of Aguenza basin) through a comparison between two conceptual hydrological models (HEC HMS) and ATHYS which…
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Assessment of Erosion in River Basins: A Distributed Model to Estimate the Sediment Production over Watersheds by a 3-Dimensional LS Factor in RUSLE Model Open
Erosive processes influence on several phenomena. In particular, they could influence on land depletion, on vegetation weakening, on aggradation phenomena of intermediate, and plain reaches of rivers, on waterways interruption due to overa…
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TOPMELT 1.0: a topography-based distribution function approach to snowmelt simulation for hydrological modelling at basin scale Open
Enhanced temperature-index distributed models for snowpack simulation, incorporating air temperature and a term for clear sky potential solar radiation, are increasingly used to simulate the spatial variability of the snow water equivalent…
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A Comparative Evaluation of Lumped and Semi-Distributed Conceptual Hydrological Models: Does Model Complexity Enhance Hydrograph Prediction? Open
The prediction of hydrological phenomena using simpler hydrological models requires less computing power and input data compared to the more complex models. Ordinarily, a more complex, white-box model would be expected to have better predi…
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A Distributed Model Predictive Control Framework for Grid-Friendly Distributed Energy Resources Open
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The Performance of Physically Based and Conceptual Hydrologic Models: A Case Study for Makkah Watershed, Saudi Arabia Open
Population growth and land use modification in urban areas require the use of accurate tools for rainfall-runoff modeling, especially where the topography is complex. The recent improvement in the quality and resolution of remotely sensed …
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Transient Models and Characteristics of Once-through Line Focus Systems Open
A transient model is the basis for understanding the characteristics of dynamic systems. It must always be a tradeoff between (modeling and computational) effort and the desired output. Thus, it is necessary for complex systems to develop …
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Spatial sensitivity analysis of snow cover data in a distributed rainfall-runoff model Open
As the availability of spatially distributed data sets for distributed rainfall-runoff modelling is strongly increasing, more attention should be paid to the influence of the quality of the data on the calibration. While a lot of progress …
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Daily Based Morgan–Morgan–Finney (DMMF) Model: A Spatially Distributed Conceptual Soil Erosion Model to Simulate Complex Soil Surface Configurations Open
In this paper, we present the Daily based Morgan–Morgan–Finney model. The main processes in this model are based on the Morgan–Morgan–Finney soil erosion model, and it is suitable for estimating surface runoff and sediment redistribution p…
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Application of a developed distributed hydrological model based on the mixed runoff generation model and 2D kinematic wave flow routing model for better flood forecasting Open
Due to the specific characteristics of semi‐arid regions, this paper aims to establish a Grid‐and‐Mixed‐runoff‐generation‐and‐two‐dimensional‐Kinematic‐wave‐based distributed hydrological model ( GMKHM‐2D model) coupling a mixed runoff gen…
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Value of distributed water level and soil moisture data in the evaluation of a distributed hydrological model: Application to the PUMMA model in the Mercier catchment (6.6 km2) in France Open
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Applicability of Hydrological Models for Flash Flood Simulation in Small Catchments of Hilly Area in China Open
Flash flood in small catchments of hilly area is an extremely complicated nonlinear process affected by catchment properties and rainfall spatio-temporal variation characteristics including many physical-geographical factors, and thus accu…