A Universal Solution to Prairie Pothole Hydrology: Enhancing Generality and Implementation Across Hydrological Models
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Abstract
Modelling the streamflow of low-lying, flat, and pothole-dominated prairie or arctic regions poses challenges due to variable non-contributing areas that influence the translation of local runoff to streamflow. Efforts have been made to represent the non-contributing area dynamics for streamflow prediction in different models. However, these efforts may not adequately represent pothole dynamics, rely heavily on calibration, are not applicable to large-scale basins, and/or are not model-agnostic. In this study, we introduce an open-source and model-agnostic version of a revised Hysteretic Depressional Storage (HDS) model that is based on an improved numerical solution (compared to the initial version of HDS) that better captures the hysteretic relationships of prairie potholes and their impact on streamflow generation. The revised HDS model is implemented and tested in three hydrological or land models of different complexities (HYPE, MESH, and SUMMA) on a prairie pothole basin in Canada. The revised version of HDS is a more accurate and numerically robust version of the original HDS model. Results demonstrate the numerical robustness of the revised HDS model when compared to the original HDS model (that suffers from numerical instabilities) within HYPE. Further, results demonstrate enhanced simulations of streamflow responses in the tested basin when HDS is integrated into the models. Importantly, the modified models successfully replicate the known hysteretic relationships between depressional storage and contributing areas in the region. The open-source HDS implementation approach is designed for integration into hydrologic or land surface modelling systems, enabling improvements in simulating complex hydrology and streamflow patterns globally.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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