Conceptual and computational challenges in continental-domain hydrologic model parameter estimation: VIC applications over the contiguous USA

Naoki Mizukami, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Martyn P Clark, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Andrew James Newman, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Bart Nijssen, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, Luis Samaniego, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Computation Hydrosystems, Leipzig, Germany, Levi D Brekke, Bureau of Reclamation, Research and Development, Denver, United States, Jeffrey Richard Arnold, MITRE Corporation Mclean, Climate + Environmental Sciences, Mclean, United States and Andrew W Wood, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States