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AN: H21G-01    [PDF]
TI: MOPEX Contribution to Prediction for Ungaged Basins (PUB)
AU: * Schaake, J C
EM: John.Schaake@noaa.gov
AF: NOAA/NWS/OHD, Hydrology Laboratory 1325 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910 United States
AU: Duan, Q
EM: Qingyun.Duan@noaa.gov
AF: NOAA/NWS/OHD, Hydrology Laboratory 1325 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910 United States
AB: The goal of the Prediction for Ungaged Basins (PUB) initiative is to reduce uncertainty in hydrologic precitions for ungaged basins. Model Parameter Estimation Experiment (MOPEX), an ongoing international project to develop a priori parameter estimation techniques for both gaged and ungaged basins, can contribute the PUB initiative in several ways. First, MOPEX can contribute to PUB science as MOPEX leads to improved understanding of how model parameters are related to basin climatic and geophysiological properties and heterogeneities. Second, the large number of data sets assembled by MOPEX for international basins can facilitate the PUB research and model intercomparison studies. Third MOPEX provides vehicles to transfer knowledge from gaged basins to ungaged basins. This paper presents an overview of MOPEX project. MOPEX science strategy, data sets and workshop experiences are discussed. Suggestions are made on how MOPEX can contribute to PUB science advancement and subsequent achievement of PUB objectives.
DE: 1800 HYDROLOGY
DE: 1833 Hydroclimatology
DE: 1860 Runoff and streamflow
SC: Hydrology [H]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting