Finally, MISDc is a continuous rainfall-runoff model developed for the simulation of flood events in the Upper Tiber River basin at sub-hourly time scale. The model consists of two components: the first is a soil water balance model that simulates the soil moisture temporal pattern and sets the initial conditions for the second component which is an event-based rainfall-runoff model for flood hydrograph simulation. The two models are coupled through a simple linear relationship that was derived from an intense monitoring activity of soil moisture and runoff over experimental catchments located in the region (Brocca et al., 2008). The model incorporates a limited number of parameters and it is characterized by low computational efforts which make it very attractive for the hydrological practice. For that the MISDc model is an appropriate tool to be used for the generation of longdischarge time series at hourly (or less) time scale (e.g. 1,000 or more years). For a detailed description of themodel the reader is referred to Brocca et al. (2011).