Abstract
Abstract. Streamflow depends on the soil moisture of a river catchment and can be measured with relatively high accuracy. The soil moisture in the root zone influences the latent heat flux and, hence, the quantity and spatial distribution of atmospheric water vapour and precipitation. As numerical weather forecast and climate models require a proper soil moisture initialization for their land surface models, we enhanced an Ensemble Kalman Filter to assimilate streamflow time series into the multi-layer land surface model TERRA-ML of the regional weather forecast model COSMO. The impact of streamflow assimilation was studied by an observing system simulation experiment in the Enz River catchment (located at the downwind side of the northern Black Forest in Germany). The results demonstrate a clear improvement of the soil moisture field in the catchment. We illustrate the potential of streamflow data assimilation for weather forecasting and discuss its spatial and temporal requirements for a corresponding, automated river gauging network.
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