Abstract The present work reports on the study and the comparison of the performance of three “Genie rural” (GR) and two Water Balance (WB) models. The calibration and robustness performances are analysed in the light of the hydro-climatic conditions. The study shows that the GR models are much more efficient and robust than the WB models. The behaviour of calibration performance as a function of hydroclimatic variables varies according to the model and goodness-of-fit criteria (GOFC). The GR models are more robust in terms of NSE(Q) and NSE(√Q) and the WB models in terms of KGE. For more robustness of the models, it is better to transfer the parameters to wetter periods or periods with a lower Potential EvapoTranspiration (PET) than the calibration period. For a loss of robustness of less than 20% for GR and 30% for WB, the variation between calibration and rain validation/PET periods must be around ±15%/±1.5%.

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用于气候变化研究的水文模型比较：对西非和中非 241 个流域的测试

摘要 目前的工作报告了三个“乡村精灵”（GR）和两个水平衡（WB）模型的研究和性能比较。根据水文气候条件分析校准和稳健性性能。研究表明，GR 模型比 WB 模型更有效、更稳健。作为水文气候变量函数的校准性能的行为因模型和拟合优度标准 (GOFC) 而异。GR 模型在 NSE(Q) 和 NSE(√Q) 方面更稳健，而 WB 模型在 KGE 方面更稳健。为了使模型更加稳健，最好将参数转移到湿润期或潜在蒸散 (PET) 比校准期低的时期。对于 GR 小于 20% 和 WB 小于 30% 的鲁棒性损失，