[Departement_IRSTEA]Eaux [TR1_IRSTEA]GEUSI [ADD1_IRSTEA]Gestion intégrée de la ressource et des infrastructuresNational audienceNowadays, flood forecasting is often done at the hourly time step, which is a good compromise between data availability and the necessary resolution to simulate flood events. However, in a number of cases, this fixed time step shows limitations, and shorter (or even larger) time steps are required. Therefore, it is necessary to have hydrological models able to adapt to various time steps. Generally, this adaptation does not limit to a simple change of the length of the time step in the model equations. The time-step dependency must be made explicit in some model parameters, and the model structure must also be adap...