Macro-scale semi-distributed hydrological model and application to the Datong River Valley

A daily distributed hydrological model was developed using routine hydro-meteorological data on the basis of the raster DEM and land cover data. Then the model was used to model daily runoff of the Datong River Valley located in the upper catchment of the Yellow River Basin. The runoff comprises surface flow, subsurface flow and ground water flow. Evapotranspiration comprises canopy evaporation, snow sublimation and soil evapotranspiration. The infiltration to the soil was estimated with improved Green-Anipt model, and the potential evapotranspiration is estimated with Morton CRAE method, which only needs the routine meteorological data. Simulation results and the comparison with semi-distributed SLURP hydrological model show that the structure of the model presented herein is reasonable.