Catchment classification based on a measure of the interaction between streamflow and forcing time series: insights on the use of a transfer entropy signature and comparison with benchmark attributes

The identification of the dominant controls for hydrological dynamics in a catchment is fundamental for the transfer of hydrological information. In particular, when the information to be transferred regards the rainfall-runoff transformation processes at fine temporal scale, as for the regionalisation of hydrological models, basin similarity should capture the sequential order and the stochastic nature of the runoff generation and propagation, …