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X - 18LERAT ET AL.: VALUE OF UPSTREAM FLOW MEASUREMENTSprising considering that the benchmark model does not exploit upstream flow informationduring the calibration process.In the following sections, we analyze the results of the different models in light of thethree questions concerning (1) the upstream flow’s influence on downstream simulations,315(2) the influence of errors on upstream flow measurements and (3) the changes in perfor-mance when measured upstream flow is replaced with a calculated value from an upstreamsubmodel.tel-00392240, version 1 - 5 Jun 20093203253305.1. What are the conditions necessary for upstream flow measurements toimpact downstream simulations?With this first question, our objective is to specify the conditions for measured upstreamflows to significantly improve downstream simulations. Here, we compare the resultsobtained with the benchmark model with the results obtained with the UP-Meas model.Table 3 clearly confirms the value of measured upstream flows: simulations on the Table 3downstream point TOTAL are clearly improved when comparing the performance of thebenchmark with the UP-Meas model, which explicitely uses these data. Mean classicalefficiency (CEff) in validation mode rises from 0.82 for the benchmark model to 0.87 forthe UP-Meas model. Similar behavior can be observed for all percenti<strong>les</strong> of the CEffdistribution over the 384 periods. This result was expected: it confirms the well-knownadvantage in using measured upstream boundary conditions in a semidistributed model.To push our analysis a step further, we tried to explain the values of the relative efficiencyREff(UP-Meas/Benchmark) by physical descriptors of the nested catchments UPand TOTAL. Among a large number of hydrological, hydrogeological and morphologicalindicators, the only descriptors that were found useful are related to the relative runoffD R A F T July 24, 2008, 3:43pm D R A F T

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