Revisiting PLUMBER: Why Do Simple Data-driven Models Outperform Modern Land Surface Models?

Bart Nijssen, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, Martyn P Clark, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Ned Haughton, University of New South Wales, Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC), Sydney, Australia and Gab Abramowitz, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, UNSW - Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia