The Document and the EDHM Package

The Document

This document is the use guide for EDHM and some other concept about the hydrological models (HM) building. In Chapter 1 explain the basic concept of hydrological cycle and the important concept and idea of EDHM. In chapter 2 show the workflow of using a hydrological model with EDHM and the way to explain a new model. Chapter 3 and 4 show the basic information, e.g. input data, parameters and output data of every module or model.

EDHM

EDHM is a R package for hydrological models in order to simplify the models building, specially the distributed hydrological model. In the package contain many complete MODEL that can used directly, and many MODULE that can a new MODEL to building. All of the MODELs and MODULEs are build with matrix-arithmetic, that can good deal with the distributed situation. In the package there are many tools to calibrate the parameters or build a new MODEL or a new MODULE. The Package is only in GitHub published, for the first time use, please install the package EDHM and HMtools use the following code:

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("LuckyKanLei/HMtools")
devtools::install_github("LuckyKanLei/EDHM")

The summary of the Processes and Modules show in the following table:

PROCESS MODULE
ReferenceET ReferenceET.Hargreaves | ReferenceET.Linacre | ReferenceET.PenMon
ActualET ActualET.Gr4j | ActualET.Vic
SNOW SNOW.17 | SNOW.Ddf
BASEFLOW BASEFLOW.ARNO
INTERCEPTION INTERCEPTION.Gash
InfiltratRat InfiltratRat.GreenAmpt
Infiltration Infiltration.OIER | Infiltration.SER
RUNOFF RUNOFF.Gr4j | RUNOFF.OIER | RUNOFF.SER | RUNOFF.Vic | RUNOFF.VM
GROUNDWATER GROUNDWATER.Vic
ROUTE ROUTE.G2RES | ROUTE.Gr4j