The impact of different rainfall products on landscape modelling simulations
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Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Title
The impact of different rainfall products on landscape modelling simulations
Journal
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
ISSN
0197-9337
1096-9837
1096-9837
Publication state
Published
Issued date
15/09/2020
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
45
Number
11
Pages
2512-2523
Language
english
Abstract
Rainfall products can contain significantly different spatiotemporal estimates, depending on their underlying data and final constructed resolution. Commonly used products, such as rain gauges, rain gauge networks, and weather radar, differ in their information content regarding intensities, spatial variability, and natural climatic variability, therefore producing different estimates. Landscape evolution models (LEMs) simulate the geomorphic changes in landscapes, and current models can simulate timeframes from event level to millions of years and some use rainfall inputs to drive them. However, the impact of different rainfall products on LEM outputs has never been considered. This study uses the STREAP rainfall generator, calibrated using commonly used rainfall observation products, to produce longer rainfall records than the observations to drive the CAESAR-Lisflood LEM to examine how differences in rainfall products affect simulated landscapes. The results show that the simulation of changes to basin geomorphology is sensitive to the differences between rainfall products, with these differences expressed linearly in discharges but non-linearly in sediment yields. Furthermore, when applied over a 1500-year period, large differences in the simulated long profiles were observed, with the simulations producing greater sediment yields showing erosion extending further downstream. This suggests that the choice of rainfall product to drive LEMs has a large impact on the final simulated landscapes. The combination of rainfall generator model and LEMs represents a potentially powerful method for assessing the impacts of rainfall product differences on landscapes and their short- and long-term evolution.
Keywords
landscape evolution, weather generator, numerical modelling, rainfall, uncertainty
Web of science
Open Access
Yes
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09/08/2021 15:05
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15/11/2022 15:09