Spatial variability on hydrological modelling

In my view, the advancement of hydrological modelling towards distributed and semi-distributed approach is aims to identify which spatial variability of model inputs are important and which one is not.  That is why the forward and backward effort in favour of  the two approach. In summer 2014(about five month), I have been working "a little" on the effects of one of model (structural) inputs, routing (flow) distance, on model results.   Since I started working on the effects of spatial variability of hydrological model inputs,  I have seen new (very interesting) papers came out. Some of these are attached in the reference (I try to upgrade the references as they came by me). My work  can be seen as a look into  one aspect of the whole issues, the spatial variability of model inputs (and structures) in hydrological response modelling.

References

• McMillan, H. , M. Gueguen, E. Grimon, R. Woods, M. Clark, D. Rupp. (2014). Spatial variability of hydrological processes and model structure diagnostics in a 50 km2 catchment. Hydrological Processes 28(18): 4896-4913. Pre-print Article
• J. M. Schuurmans, M. F. P. Bierkens. Eect of spatial distribution of daily rainfall on interior catchment response of a distributed hydrological model. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions Discussions, 2006, 3 (4), pp.2175-2208. <hal-00298750>
• Minet, J., Laloy, E., Lambot, S., and Vanclooster, M.: Effect of high-resolution spatial soil moisture variability on simulated runoff response using a distributed hydrologic model, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 15, 1323-1338, doi:10.5194/hess-15-1323-2011, 2011.
• Yang, D., Herath, S. and Musiake, K. (2000), Comparison of different distributed hydrological models for characterization of catchment spatial variability. Hydrol. Process., 14: 403–416. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1085(20000228)14:3<403::AID-HYP945>3.0.CO;2-3
•  Marthews, T. R., Dadson, S. J., Lehner, B., Abele, S., and Gedney, N.: High-resolution global topographic index values for use in large-scale hydrological modelling, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 19, 91-104, doi:10.5194/hess-19-91-2015, 2015.