ADGEO Advances in Geosciences ADGEO Adv. Geosci. 1680-7359 Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/adgeo-5-19-2005 Using multi-objective optimisation to integrate alpine regions in groundwater flow models Rojanschi V. 1 Wolf J. 1 Barthel R. 1 Braun J. 1 Institut für Wasserbau, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 61, Stuttgart, Germany 16 12 2005 5 19 23 Copyright: © 2005 V. Rojanschi et al. 2005 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ This article is available from https://adgeo.copernicus.org/articles/5/19/2005/adgeo-5-19-2005.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://adgeo.copernicus.org/articles/5/19/2005/adgeo-5-19-2005.pdf

Within the research project GLOWA Danube, a groundwater flow model was developed for the Upper Danube basin. This paper reports on a preliminary study to include the alpine part of the catchment in the model. A conceptual model structure was implemented and tested using multi-objective optimisation analysis. The performance of the model and the identifiability of the parameters were studied. A possible over-parameterisation of the model was also tested using principal component analysis.