Impact model: VIC-NVE

VIC is one of the 15 regional hydrology models following the ISIMIP2a protocol which form the base of simulations for the ISIMIP2a regional water sector outputs; for a full technical description of the ISIMIP2a Simulation Data from Water (regional) Sector, see this DOI link: http://doi.org/10.5880/PIK.2018.007

ISIMIP2b
ISIMIP2a

Person responsible for model simulations in this simulation round

Shaochun Huang: shh@nve.no, 0000-0001-7426-5181, The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) (Norway)

Xiaoyan Wang: xywang@hhu.edu.cn, Hohai University (China)

Output Data

Experiments: II, III
Climate Drivers: None
Date: 2018-05-30

Basic information

Model Version: 4.1.2e

Model Output License: CC BY 4.0

Reference Paper: Main Reference: Huang S, Kumar R, Rakovec O, Aich V, Wang X, Samaniego L, Liersch S, Krysanova V et al. Multimodel assessment of flood characteristics in four large river basins at global warming of 1.5, 2.0 and 3.0 K above the pre-industrial level. Environmental Research Letters,13,124005,2018

Resolution

Spatial aggregation: regular grid

Horizontal resolution: 0.5°x0.5°

Temporal resolution of input data: climate variables: daily

Input data

Simulated atmospheric climate data sets used: MIROC5 (rcp45), HadGEM2-ES (rcp45), IPSL-CM5A-LR (rcp45), GFDL-ESM2M (rcp45), IPSL-CM5A-LR, HadGEM2-ES, GFDL-ESM2M, MIROC5

Observed atmospheric climate data sets used: EWEMBI

Climate variables: sfcWind, tasmax, tasmin, pr

Spin-up

Was a spin-up performed?: No

Methods

Potential evapotranspiration: Penmann-Monteith

Routing

Runoff routing: The within cell routing uses a Unit Hydrograph approach and the channel routing uses the linearized Saint-Venant equation

Calibration

Was the model calibrated?: Yes

Which years were used for calibration?: Different number of subcatchments and calibration periods depending on the observed discharge data availability

Modelled catchments

Modelled catchments: Upper Mississippi and Rhine

Person responsible for model simulations in this simulation round

Shaochun Huang: shh@nve.no, 0000-0001-7426-5181, The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) (Norway)

Additional persons involved: Shaochun Huang

Output Data

Experiments: historical (Mississippi, Niger, Rhine)
Climate Drivers: None
Date: 2015-10-23

Basic information

Model Version: 4.1.2e

Model Output License: CC0

Model Homepage: https://vic.readthedocs.io/en/master/

Reference Paper: Main Reference: Huang S, Kumar R, Flörke M, Yang T, Hundecha Y, Kraft P, Gao C, Gelfan A, Liersch S, Lobanova A, Strauch M, van Ogtrop F, Reinhardt J, Haberlandt U, Krysanova V et al. Erratum to: Evaluation of an ensemble of regional hydrological models in 12 large-scale river basins worldwide. Climatic Change,141,399-400,2017

Resolution

Spatial aggregation: regular grid

Temporal resolution of input data: climate variables: daily

Temporal resolution of input data: soil: constant

Input data

Observed atmospheric climate data sets used: WATCH (WFD)

Climate variables: sfcWind, tasmax, tasmin, rhs, pr

Spin-up

Was a spin-up performed?: No

Methods

Potential evapotranspiration: Penman-Monteith equation

Snow melt: An energy balance model (Andreadis et al., 2009)

Routing

Runoff routing: The routing of water flow is performed using the unit hydrograph principle within the grid cells and linearized St. Venant’s equations for the stream channels.

Calibration

Was the model calibrated?: Yes

Which years were used for calibration?: 1971-80 for the Mississippi; 1981-1990 for the Rhine and 1961-1970 for the Niger

Which dataset was used for calibration?: WATCH

How many catchments were callibrated?: at the outlet of each basin

Modelled catchments

Modelled catchments: Rhine, Upper Niger, Upper Mississippi