Geoscientific Model Development
Geoscientific Model Development
GMD
Articles | Volume 15, issue 10
Articles | Volume 15, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-4163-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-4163-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 15, issue 10
Development and technical paper
 | 
01 Jun 2022
Development and technical paper |  | 01 Jun 2022

Evaluating a reservoir parametrization in the vector-based global routing model mizuRoute (v2.0.1) for Earth system model coupling

Inne Vanderkelen, Shervan Gharari, Naoki Mizukami, Martyn P. Clark, David M. Lawrence, Sean Swenson, Yadu Pokhrel, Naota Hanasaki, Ann van Griensven, and Wim Thiery

Data sets

Reservoir inflow, storage and realease Fuad Yassin https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1492043

The Global Streamflow Indices and Metadata Archive - Part 1: Station catalog and Catchment boundary Hong Xuan Do, Lukas Gudmundsson, Michael Leonard, and Seth Westra https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.887477

G-RUN ENSEMBLE Gionata Ghiggi, Vincent Humphrey, Lukas Gudmundsson, and Sonia I. Seneviratne https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12794075.v1

Hydrologic Derivatives for Modeling and Applications (HDMA) database K. L. Verdin https://doi.org/10.5066/F7S180ZP

Evaluating a reservoir parametrisation in the vector-based global routing model mizuRoute (v2.0.1) for Earth System Model coupling Inne Vanderkelen https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5965053.v1

Model code and software

VUB-HYDR/2022_Vanderkelen_etal_GMD: review_round1 (0.1) Inne Vanderkelen https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6490979

ESCOMP/CTSM: Add SSP3-7.0 extension, and SMYLE 1850 and transient, compsets and use-cases (release-clm5.0.35) CTSM Development Team: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6032448

mizuRoute v1.2.1 (v1.2.1) N. Mizukami, M. P. Clark, and S. Gharari https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4395155

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Short summary
Human-controlled reservoirs have a large influence on the global water cycle. However, dam operations are rarely represented in Earth system models. We implement and evaluate a widely used reservoir parametrization in a global river-routing model. Using observations of individual reservoirs, the reservoir scheme outperforms the natural lake scheme. However, both schemes show a similar performance due to biases in runoff timing and magnitude when using simulated runoff.
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