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Development of a high resolution runoff routing model, calibration and application to assess runoff from the LMD GCM
Authors:Agns Ducharne  Catherine Golaz  Etienne Leblois  Katia Laval  Jan Polcher  Emmanuel Ledoux  Ghislain de Marsily
Institution:

a Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique du CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

b Laboratoire CNRS Sisyphe, Centre d'Informatique Géologique, ENSMP, Fontainebleau, France

c Cemagref, Lyon, France

d Laboratoire CNRS Sisyphe, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

Abstract:Large-scale runoff routing models (RRMs) are important as a validation tool for GCMs, and to close the hydrological cycle in fully-coupled climate models. The model RiTHM was developed to simulate the discharge of large rivers from the total runoff simulated by the LMD GCM. It uses a 1024×800 grid, nested in the 64×50 grid of the LMD GCM. The runoff simulated in a GCM grid cell is uniformly distributed over the underlying cells, where a series of two reservoirs accounts for the delay related to infiltration through the unsaturated zone and aquifers. The resulting riverflow is routed assuming pure translation along the drainage network, extracted with a GIS from a 5 min DEM. The transfer time from a cell to the outlet depends on topography, and on a basin-wide parameter, the time of concentration. RiTHM was calibrated in 11 river basins, using a realistic runoff forcing (computed by the land surface model SECHIBA from reanalyzed meteorological forcing). This led to a very satisfactory reproduction of observed hydrographs. The main problems were related to hydraulic processes neglected in RiTHM (reservoirs, diversion of riverflow because of flooding or irrigation). These results helped to validate SECHIBA, except for its snow processes, shown to be too simple. With the same parameters, RiTHM was also forced with runoff from the LMD GCM. This induced an important degradation of the simulated hydrographs, regarding both volume and timing. It was largely explained by errors in precipitation, and more generally climate, in the GCM. The direct calibration of RiTHM under the GCM-runoff forcing markedly improved the timing of simulated discharge, which could be interesting for land–atmosphere–ocean coupling. This work demonstrated that the usefulness of RRMs for GCMs strongly depends on their adequate calibration.
Keywords:River basins  Runoff routing  Discharge  GCMs  Land surface processes  Calibration
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