Large Sample Basin Experiments
for Hydrological Model Parameterization:
Results of the Model Parameter Experiment – MOPEX

Edited by Vazken Andréassian, Alan Hall, Nanée Chahinian & John Schaake

This volume contains 25 papers, many of which follow from presentations made at the last two MOPEX workshops: July 2004 at ENGREF, Paris, France, and April 2005 at the IAHS Assembly in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil. An objective is to show how valuable it is to work on large data sets in hydrological modelling.

The first section provides an introduction to the goals of the MOPEX project, and presents the databases that were used by the workshop participants. Much of the data is published on the DVD accompanying this volume. ·
The second section groups four review papers that were not presented during the MOPEX workshops, but solicited especially for this volume, in order to provide alternative views on the use of large sample basin experiments in hydrology. ·
The third and the fourth sections present model parameterization experiments based on samples of a large number of basins: in the third, the focus is on the databases that were gathered specifically for the MOPEX program, while the fourth presents regionalization and parameterization studies based on other large hydrometeorological databases. ·
The fifth section presents a compilation of the most recent results of the project, and discusses its perspectives.

The abstracts of the papers in this volume can be seen at: www.iahs.info with information about other IAHS publications and IAHS activities.

IAHS Publication 307 (2006) I978-1-901502-73-2 348+ iv pp, plus a DVD with data, price £70.00

Introduction and Synthesis: Why should hydrologists work on a large number of basin data sets?
Vazken Andréassian, Alan Hall, Nanée Chahinian & John Schaake, 1-5

1 Introduction

The US MOPEX Data Set
John Schaake, Shuzheng Cong & Qingyun Duan, 9-28

The MOPEX 2004 French database: main hydrological and morphological characteristics
N. Chahinian, T. Mathevet, F. Habets & V. Andréassian, 29-40

Catalogue of the models used in MOPEX 2004/2005
V. Andreassian, S. Bergström, N. Chahinian, Q. Duan, Y. M. Gusev, I. Littlewood, T. Mathevet, C. Michel, A. Montanari, G. Moretti, R. Moussa, O. N. Nasonova, K. O’Connor, E. Paquet, C. Perrin, A. Rousseau, J. Schaake, T. Wagener & Z. Xie, 41-94

5 Perspectives

Compilation of the MOPEX 2004 results
N. Chahinian, V. Andréassian, Q. Duan, V. Fortin, H. Gupta, T. Hogue, T. Mathevet, A. Montanari, G. Moretti, R. Moussa, C. Perrin, J. Schaake, T. Wagener & Z. Xie, 313-338

The Model Parameter Estimation Experiment (MOPEX): Its structure, connection to other international initiatives and future directions
Thorsten Wagener, Terri Hogue, John Schaake, Qingyun Duan, Hoshin Gupta, Vazken Andréassian, Alan Hall & George Leavesley, 339-346

Key word index, 347

Large Sample Basin Experimentsfor Hydrological Model Parameterization: Results of the Model Parameter Experiment – MOPEX

Edited by Vazken Andréassian, Alan Hall, Nanée Chahinian & John Schaake

IAHS Publication 307 (2006) I978-1-901502-73-2 348+ iv pp, plus a DVD with data, price £70.00

Contents

1 Introduction

2 Review papers

3 Model parameterization experiments using the MOPEX databases

4 Regionalization and parameterization studies based on large basin samples

5 Perspectives

Large Sample Basin Experiments
for Hydrological Model Parameterization:
Results of the Model Parameter Experiment – MOPEX