State updating of a distributed hydrological model with Ensemble Kalman Filtering: effects of updating frequency and observation network density on forecast accuracy

This paper presents a study on the optimal setup for discharge assimilation within a spatially distributed hydrological model. The Ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) is employed to update the grid-based distributed states of such an hourly spatially distributed version of the HBV-96 model. By using a phy...

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Published in:Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Main Authors: O. Rakovec, A. H. Weerts, P. Hazenberg, P. J. J. F. Torfs, R. Uijlenhoet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2012-09-01
Online Access:http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/16/3435/2012/hess-16-3435-2012.pdf