# Chapter 6: Simulating the Tupungato River basin streamflow discharge

#### Ezequiel Toum

#### 2021-01-22

## Is your turn!

In this chapter you are by your own. In the `data("tupungato_data")` dataset you will find a minimal information content to simulate the streamflow discharge of the Tupungato River basin (`?tupungato_data`).

Hint:

- maybe is time time take a look at the Evapotranspiration package. Remember that in this case example (Tupungato basin) you only have air temperature series.
- in the dataset you will find series of snow cover area. Are they useful? how? (see Parajka and Blöschl 2008; Finger et al. 2015).
- to construct the HBV model it would be wise to revisit vignette’s chapter 3.

## References

Finger, David, Marc Vis, Matthias Huss, and Jan Seibert. 2015. “The Value of Multiple Data Set Calibration Versus Model Complexity for Improving the Performance of Hydrological Models in Mountain Catchments.” Water Resour. Res. 51 (4): 1939–58. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014WR015712.

Parajka, J., and G. Blöschl. 2008. “The Value of MODIS Snow Cover Data in Validating and Calibrating Conceptual Hydrologic Models.” Journal of Hydrology 358 (3): 240–58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2008.06.006.