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# The mesoscale Hydrological Model -- mHM
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<img alt="UFZ mHM logo" src="/uploads/06b4f411bc553302f724163da84f9ceb/mhm-logo.png" width="50%"/>
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## About
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The mesoscale hydrologic model (mHM) developed by our group is a spatially explicit distributed hydrologic model that uses grid cells as a primary hydrologic unit, and accounts for the following processes: canopy interception, snow accumulation and melting, soil moisture dynamics, infiltration and surface runoff, evapotranspiration, subsurface storage and discharge generation, deep percolation and baseflow and discharge attenuation and flood routing.
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Schematic Representation of the Mesoscale Hydrologic Model The model is driven by hourly or daily meteorological forcings (e.g., precipitation, temperature), and it utilizes observable basin physical characteristics (e.g., soil textural, vegetation, and geological properties) to infer the spatial variability of the required parameters. To date, the model has been successfully applied and tested in more than 300 Pan EU basins, as well as India, and USA, ranging in size from 4 to 550,000 km2 at spatial resolutions (or grid size) varied between 1 km and 100 km.
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## Cite as:
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- Samaniego L., R. Kumar, S. Attinger (2010): [Multiscale parameter regionalization of a grid-based hydrologic model at the mesoscale](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2008WR007327/abstract). Water Resour. Res., 46,W05523, doi:10.1029/2008WR007327.
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- Kumar, R., L. Samaniego, and S. Attinger (2013): [Implications of distributed hydrologic model parameterization on water fluxes at multiple scales and locations](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2012WR012195/abstract), Water Resour. Res., 49, doi:10.1029/2012WR012195. |
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