Author
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- Pavel Kovář
(Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic)
- Michaela Hrabalíková
(Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic)
- Martin Neruda
(Faculty of Environment, University of Jan Evangelista Purkyně in Ústí nad Labem, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic)
- Roman Neruda
(Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic)
- Jan Šrejber
(Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic)
- Andrea Jelínková
(Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic)
- Hana Bačinová
(Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic)
Abstract
Real and scenario prognosis in engineering hydrology often involves using simulation techniques of mathematical modelling the rainfall-runoff processes in small catchments. These catchments are often up to 50 km2 in area, their character is torrential, and the type of water flow is super-critical. Many of them are ungauged. The damage in the catchments is enormous, and the length of the torrents is about 23% of the total length of small rivers in the Czech Republic. The Smědá experimental mountainous catchment (with the Bílý potok downstream gauge) in the Jizerské hory Mts. was chosen as a model area for simulating extreme rainfall-runoff processes using two different models. For the purposes of evaluating and simulating significant rainfall-runoff episodes, we chose the KINFIL physically-based 2D hydrological model, and ANN, an artificial neural network mathematical "learning" model. A neural network is a model of the non-linear functional dependence between inputs and outputs with free parameters (weights), which are created by iterative gradient learning algorithms utilizing calibration data. The two models are entirely different. They are based on different principles, but both require the same time series (rainfall-runoff) data. However, the parameters of the models are fully different, without any physical comparison. The strength of KINFIL is that there are physically clear parameters corresponding to adequate hydrological process equations, while the strength of ANN lies in the "learning procedure". Their common property is the rule that the greater the number of measured rainfall-runoff events (pairs), the better fitted the simulation results can be expected.
Suggested Citation
Pavel Kovář & Michaela Hrabalíková & Martin Neruda & Roman Neruda & Jan Šrejber & Andrea Jelínková & Hana Bačinová, 2015.
"Choosing an appropriate hydrological model for rainfall-runoff extremes in small catchments,"
Soil and Water Research, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 10(3), pages 137-146.
Handle:
RePEc:caa:jnlswr:v:10:y:2015:i:3:id:16-2015-swr
DOI: 10.17221/16/2015-SWR
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- Andrzej WALEGA & Leszek KSIAZEK, 2016.
"Influence of rainfall data on the uncertainty of flood simulation,"
Soil and Water Research, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 11(4), pages 277-284.
- Rostislav Fiala & Jana Podhrázská & Jana Konečná & Josef Kučera & Petr Karásek & Pavel Zahradníček & Petr Štěpánek, 2020.
"Changes in a river's regime of a watercourse after a small water reservoir construction,"
Soil and Water Research, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 15(1), pages 55-65.
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