HR: 16:05h
AN: H44B-03    [Abstracts]
TI: Using Satellite Retrieved Data to Improve the Calibration of a Hydrological Model for Flash Flood Forecast.
AU: Gabellani, S
EM: simone.g@cima.unige.it
AF: CIMA- Centro di Ricerca Interuniversitario in Monitoraggio Ambientale, Universit… di Genova e Universit… della Basilicata, Via Cadorna 7, Savona, 17100 Italy
AU: Silvestro, F
EM: francesco.s@cima.unige.it
AF: CIMA- Centro di Ricerca Interuniversitario in Monitoraggio Ambientale, Universit… di Genova e Universit… della Basilicata, Via Cadorna 7, Savona, 17100 Italy
AU: Sini, F
EM: Francesca@cima.unige.it
AF: CIMA- Centro di Ricerca Interuniversitario in Monitoraggio Ambientale, Universit… di Genova e Universit… della Basilicata, Via Cadorna 7, Savona, 17100 Italy
AU: Rudari, R
EM: rr@cima.unige.it
AF: CIMA- Centro di Ricerca Interuniversitario in Monitoraggio Ambientale, Universit… di Genova e Universit… della Basilicata, Via Cadorna 7, Savona, 17100 Italy
AU: Rudari, R
EM: rr@cima.unige.it
AF: DIST - Dipartimento di Informatia, Sistemistica e Telematica, Universit… di Genova, Via all'Opera pia 23, Genova, 16100 Italy
AU: * Boni, G
EM: boni@cima.unige.it
AF: CIMA- Centro di Ricerca Interuniversitario in Monitoraggio Ambientale, Universit… di Genova e Universit… della Basilicata, Via Cadorna 7, Savona, 17100 Italy
AU: * Boni, G
EM: boni@cima.unige.it
AF: DIST - Dipartimento di Informatia, Sistemistica e Telematica, Universit… di Genova, Via all'Opera pia 23, Genova, 16100 Italy
AB: An intriguing prospective in distributed modeling is the possibility to incorporate remotely sensed data, such as evaporative fraction and soil moisture conditions, with the purpose of initializing, driving, updating or calibrating models. In this work a parsimonious distributed model devoted to small catchments continuous discharge simulation is presented. Soil type and land use information are used to calibrate a modified Horton method that represents infiltration process. It is shown that the model is able to mimic the different component of the continuity equation when it is calibrated on reliable hydro-pluviometric data, especially during relatively wet periods. The calibration of the model in a data-scarce catchment is improved by using evaporative fraction maps retrieved by a flexible and simple model of satellite data assimilation.
DE: 0933 Remote sensing
DE: 1818 Evapotranspiration
DE: 1836 Hydrologic budget (1655)
DE: 1860 Runoff and streamflow
DE: 1866 Soil moisture
SC: Hydrology [H]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly