Inverting Topography for Landscape Evolution Model Process Representation: 2. Calibration and Validation

Barnhart, Katherine R.; Tucker, Gregory E.; Doty, Sandra G.; Shobe, Charles M.; Glade, Rachel C.; Rossi, Matthew W.; Hill, Mary C.

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Inverting Topography for Landscape Evolution Model Process Representation: 2. Calibration and Validation

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2020
By Barnhart, Katherine R. ; Tucker, Gregory E. ; Doty, Sandra G. ; ...

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Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface
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Barnhart, Katherine R. ; Tucker, Gregory E. ; Doty, Sandra G. ; Shobe, Charles M. ; Glade, Rachel C. ; Rossi, Matthew W. ; Hill, Mary C.
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NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service) ; CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences) ; NCEI (National Centers for Environmental Information)
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We present a multimodel analysis for mechanistic hypothesis testing in landscape evolution theory. The study site is a watershed with well-constrained initial and boundary conditions in which a river network locally incised 50 m over the last 13 ka. We calibrate and validate a set of 37 landscapeevolution models designed to hierarchically test elements of complexity from four categories: hillslope processes, channel processes, surface hydrology, and representation of geologic materials. Comparison of each model to a base model, which uses stream power channel incision, uniform lithology, hillslopetransport by linear diffusion, and surface water discharge proportional to drainage area, serves as a formal test of which elements of complexity improve model performance. Model fit is assessed using an objective function based on a direct difference between observed and simulated modern topography. A hybrid
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Earth-Surface Processes Geophysics
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Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 125(7)
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2018jf004963
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2169-9003 ; 2169-9011
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