The quest to find physically meaningful parameters in environmental models

Luis Samaniego1, Oldrich Rakovec2, Rohini Kumar3, Robert Schweppe4 and Stephan Thober2, (1)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, (2)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Computational Hydrosystems, Leipzig, Germany, (3)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH – UFZ, Computational Hydrosystems, Leipzig, Germany, (4)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Computational Hydrosystems, Leipzig, Germany