The joint model comparison study has been initialized during the first edition of the symposium in 2013 and since then has been a recurring topic of the symposium.
The results Results of the first model comparison study for a selected sub-catchment from the Meuse basen have been published in this journal article:
de Boer-Euser, T., Bouaziz, L., De Niel, J., Brauer, C., Dewals, B., Drogue, G., Fenicia, F., Grelier, B., Nossent, J., Pereira, F., Savenije, H., Thirel, G., and Willems, P.: Looking beyond general metrics for model comparison – lessons from an international model intercomparison study, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 21, 423–440, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-423-2017, 2017.
A follow-up study is in progress, results will be presented on the next edition of the International Meuse Symposium.