Global off-line evaluation of the ISBA-TRIP flood model

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L., 1996, P 3 INT C WORKSH INT VOROSMARTY C J, 1989, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, V3, P241, DOI 10.1029/GB003i003p00241 Decharme, B. Alkama, R. Papa, F. Faroux, S. Douville, H. Prigent, C. Papa, Fabrice/D-3695-2009 Papa, Fabrice/0000-0001-6305-6253 French "Agence Nationale pour la Recherche" (ANR); CYMENT of the RTRA STAE Toulouse; "Centre National de Recherches Meteorologiques" (CNRM) of Meteo-France; "Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique" (CNRS) of the French research ministry This work is supported by the program IMPACT-BOREAL of the French "Agence Nationale pour la Recherche" (ANR), the CYMENT project of the RTRA STAE Toulouse, the "Centre National de Recherches Meteorologiques" (CNRM) of Meteo-France, and the "Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique" (CNRS) of the French research ministry. The authors would like to thank Christine Delire (CNRS/CNRM) as well as anonymous reviewers for their useful comments on this study. 22 SPRINGER NEW YORK CLIM DYNAMThis study presents an off-line global evaluation of the ISBA-TRIP hydrological model including a two-way flood scheme. The flood dynamics is indeed described through the daily coupling between the ISBA land surface model and the TRIP river routing model including a prognostic flood reservoir. This reservoir fills when the river height exceeds the critical river bankfull height and vice versa. The flood interacts with the soil hydrology through infiltration and with the overlying atmosphere through precipitation interception and free water surface evaporation. The model is evaluated over a relatively long period (1986-2006) at 1 degrees resolution using the Princeton University 3-hourly atmospheric forcing. Four simulations are performed in order to assess the model sensitivity to the river bankfull height. The evaluation is made against satellite-derived global inundation estimates as well as in situ river discharge observations at 122 gauging stations. First, the results show a reasonable simulation of the global distribution of simulated floodplains when compared to satellite-derived estimates. At basin scale, the comparison reveals some discrepancies, both in terms of climatology and interannual variability, but the results remain acceptable for a simple large-scale model. In addition, the simulated river discharges are improved in term of efficiency scores for more than 50% of the 122 stations and deteriorated for 4% only. Two mechanisms mainly explain this positive impact: an increase in evapotranspiration that limits the annual discharge overestimation found when flooding is not taking into account and a smoothed river peak flow when the floodplain storage is significant. Finally, the sensitivity experiments suggest that the river bankfull depth is potentially tunable according to the river discharge scores to control the accuracy of the simulated flooded areas and its related increase in land surface evaporation. Such a tuning could be relevant at least for climate studies in which the spatio-temporal variations in precipitation are generally poorly represented