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The aim of the paper is the identification of the kinds and conditions of retention occurring in the selected of young glacial catchment (the Potok Oliwski) in natural and anthropogenic conditions by means of the mathematic model of Mike She. As a result of the performed calculations it has been possible to determine that the studied area, thanks t...
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... lack of organised surface outflow and the postglacial geological structure of the ground results in the occurrence of two types of endorheic hollows-absorptive and evapotranspirative (Fig. 5), with a domination of the former. The depth of absorptive hollows does not exceed 1.25 m, while the area of the largest ones reaches over 12 thousand m 2 with a volume of 4000 m 3 . Most hollows have an area of about several hundred square metres and a similar ...
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... MIKE SHE [31], a well-known hydrological code, has been used in a wide range of applications [2,12,16,29,32]. It was chosen to provide evaluation of the performance of SHETRAN for simulating the geologically complex study site. ...
Despite recent progress in terms of cheap computing power, the application of physically based distributed (PBD) hydrological codes still remains limited, particularly, because some commercial-license codes are expensive, even under academic terms. Thus, there is a need for testing the performance of free-license PBD codes simulating complex catchments, so that cheap and reliable mechanistic modelling alternatives might be identified. The hydrology of a geologically complex catchment (586 km2) was modelled using the free-license PBD code SHETRAN. The SHETRAN evaluation took place by comparing its predictions with (i) discharge and piezometric time series observed at different locations within the catchment, some of which were not taken into account during model calibration (i.e., multi-site test); and (ii) predictions from a comparable commercial-license code, MIKE
SHE. In general, the discharge and piezometric predictions of both codes were comparable, which encourages the use of the free-license SHETRAN code for the distributed modelling of geologically complex systems.
