“…Since 1997, a series of annual workshops on large-scale hydrological modelling has provided a forum to the Germanspeaking community for discussing recent developments and achievements in this research area (Bronstert et al, 1998;Fohrer and Döll, 1999;Gerold, 2000;Sutmöller and Raschke, 2001;Stephan et al, 2002;Hennrich et al, 2003;Ludwig et al, 2004;Krause et al, 2005;Barthel et al, 2006;Lindenschmidt et al, 2007). Here, "large-scale" refers apCorrespondence to: P. Döll (p.doell@em.uni-frankfurt.de) proximately to study areas between a few thousand km 2 and the whole globe.…”