Hydrological modelling
The hydrology studies the water cycle - an occurrence and amount of water, its circulation and its temporal and spatial distribution. The water cycle is extremely complicated and incorporates a large number of partial processes, from which only a part is described and quantified. The main goal of hydrology is therefore the description of the water cycle and related processes. Nevertheless, from the practical point of view there is also a strong need to model these processes. A lack or an excess of water are limiting factors for many human activities, therefore the hydrological models are used in many areas, e.g. in the urban or landscape planning, within the flood warning systems etc. Hydrological models A hydrological model is a computer programme simulating the hydrological cycle or its part. Any model is always a simplified representation of the reality, nevertheless it must capture the significant characteristics of the modelled process with a sufficient accuracy. There is a large number of hydrological models which can be classified into three groups according their inner structure:
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Research Activities |
The research in the field of hydrological modelling is tightly related to the hydrological monitoring, which brings new findings about hydrological processes and the data necessary for the modelling. The development of the rainfall-runoff and soil moisture models is a long-term research objective at the Institute of the Hydrodynamics. Currently, the effort is directed at a use of point-scale measurement of soil moisture for black-box modelling or at a development of the models with temporally variable parameters. |