The UK Hydro-MIP is a community-lead Model Intercomparison Project, seeking to further hydrological understanding by comparing streamflow simulations over the UK from a range of hydrological and land-surface models. Our key ambitions are:
- To enable understanding of UK hydrological capability, including the applicability of different models, and to inform operational/practical applications of models.
- To understand the differences between model types and to drive model development.
- To identify general knowledge gaps and to understand model uncertainty.
- To convene the community and to further hydrological understanding in the UK.
The UK Hydro-MIP provides modelling protocols, including consistent meteorological driving data, to ensure comparability of model outputs.
Our current model line-up includes a range of models which are commonly applied in the UK (see the current list of participating models here), and we welcome any model which can simulate streamflow at a daily timestep (email hydrojules@ceh.ac.uk to find out more).
It is hoped that UK Hydro-MIP will be an ongoing collaboration between the UK hydrological community, and that funding will be secured for future phases to further explore UK hydrology.
