gohydro

goHydro

A suite of hydrological tools and structs used with numerical modelling

Includes:

• channel -- a set of geometries used to compute depth-area relationships.
  • trapezoid
  • more to come..
• convolution -- a set of convolution models/transfer functions used to simulate attenuation:
  • Snyder
  • Triangular
• energybal -- a general energy balance scheme. Mostly used for snowpack modelling.
• glue -- a Generalized Likelihood Uncertainty Estimator struct that is sorting-safe.
• grid -- a set of Go struct used to manipulate gridded data.
• gwru -- a Ground Water Response Unit (for hydrological modelling)--mainly a distributed application of TOPMODEL.
• hechms -- the HEC-HMS model (partially) rebuilt in Go.
• hru -- a Hydrologic Response Unit struct.
• hyetograph -- a set of synthetic hyetographs used in hydrology:
  • SCSII
  • Timmins design storm
  • Unit/uniform
• infiltration -- a suite of infiltration schemes:
  • Curve Number method
  • more to come..
• mesh -- a set of Go struct used to manipulate unstructured data (e.g., TINs).
• pet -- a suite of potential evapotranspiration estimators:
  • Makkink
  • Penman
  • Penman-Monteith
  • simple Sine curve
  • more to come..
• porousmedia -- A struct used to hold common subsurface material properties.
• profile -- an ordered set of porousmedia making up a linear/vertical subsurface profile.
• rainrun -- a variety of lumped-parameter, catchment-based continuous rainfall-runoff models using a common interface. This package include the ability for Monte Carlo integration and optimization. Models include:
  • Atkinson (2003)
  • Dawdy and O'Donnel (1965)
  • GR4J (2003)
  • HBV (1976)
  • Manabe (1969)
  • Multi-Layer capacitance (2003)
  • Quinn (1993)
  • Sixpar (1983)
  • SPLR (2011)
• routing -- a suite of topological tools optimized as a recursive set of Go structs.
• snowpack -- a snowpack modelling scheme:
  • Cold-content factor
  • Degree-day factor
  • Energy balance (to come)
• solirrad -- solar irradiation estimation.
• swat -- the SWAT model effectively re-created using goHydro.
• tem -- a Topological Elevation Model: a DEM with drain path connectivity.
• waterbudget -- a set of classic large scale water-budget models:
  • ABC model
  • ABCD model
  • Budyko model
  • NOPEX6
  • Palmer
  • Thornthwaite and Mather
• wgen -- a simple weather generator.

Legacy (no future updates)/Deprecated

• gmet -- a struct used to handle gridded temporal climate data efficiently (legacy).
• met -- tools to handle time series data (legacy).
• lia -- an explicit, 2D local inertial approximation to the shallow water equation, following LISFLOOD-FP.
  • deprecated: moved to goLIA.
• porousmedia -- a Go struct used to define the properties of some variable porous media profile including a fully-implicit solution to the one-dimensional, unsteady Richards equation of variably saturated liquid and vapour flow in porous media, based on the solution of Bittelli, M., Campbell, G.S., and Tomei, F., (2015). Soil Physics with Python. Oxford University Press.
  • deprecated: moved to goVSF.