Models and Partners

The participating models are listed below. The partners responsible for setting up the models and performing the model runs are:

Model	Partner	Institution
ML-LSTM	Martin Gauch Jimmy Lin	UWaterloo UWaterloo
ML-XGBoost	Martin Gauch Jimmy Lin	UWaterloo UWaterloo
LBRM	Lauren Fry Emily Bradley	NOAA & USACE USACE
GR4J-Raven-lp	Hongren Shen Bryan Tolson	UWaterloo UWaterloo
GR4J-Raven-sd	Hongren Shen Bryan Tolson	UWaterloo UWaterloo
HYMOD2-DS	Tirthankar Roy Sungwook Wi	UNebraskaLincoln UMass
SWAT-EPA	Xiaojing Ni Yuan Yongping	U.S. EPA U.S. EPA
SWAT-Guelph	Narayan Shrestha Prasad Daggupati	UGuelph UGuelph
mHM-Waterloo	Meghan McLeod Nandita Basu Rohini Kumar	UWaterloo UWaterloo UFZ Leipzig
mHM-UFZ	Oldrich Rakovec Luis Samaniego Sabine Attinger	UFZ Leipzig UFZ Leipzig UFZ Leipzig
HYPE	Tricia Stadnyk Hervé Awoye	UCalgary UCalgary
VIC	Hongren Shen Bryan Tolson	UWaterloo UWaterloo
VIC-GRU	Shervan Gharari	USask
GEM-Hydro	Étienne Gaborit	ECCC
MESH-SVS	Étienne Gaborit Daniel Princz	ECCC ECCC
MESH-CLASS	Amin Haghnegahdar Mohamed Elshamy Daniel Princz	USask USask ECCC
WATFLOOD	Frank Seglenieks	ECCC

The details on the models can be found in the following sections. At least the version and a download link of model source code should be given. The specification of example data to test the model can be given as well.

Global Environmental Multi-scale Hydrology - GEM-Hydro model

GEM-Hydro consists of taking the GEM model outputs to force the SPS system (surface prediction system), which calls different routines for each surface type such as inland water, sea water, glaciers, sea ice, and land. For land, the SVS land-surface scheme (or ISBA, but it is meant to be deprecated eventually and for hydrology SVS is preferred anyway) is used. This will then force the Watroute routing scheme. Therefore, we need these 4 systems: GEM, SPS, SVS, and Watroute.

a) Global Environmental Multi-scale model - GEM

Webpage	Webpage link (CMC internal)
Version	5.0 (Date ??)
Source	Not public
Language	Fortran 90 (mostly)
Sample data	Not available
Forcings/ output	Binary files (*.fst) with gridded values per variable, level and time-step
Contact	See Webpage (CMC internal)

b) Surface Prediction System - SPS

Webpage	Webpage link (CMC internal)
Version	5.8 (Date ??)
Source	Follow instruction on webpage (CMC internal)
Language	Fortran 90 (mostly)
Sample data	Available on Pegasus
Forcings/ output	Binary files (*.fst) with gridded values per variable, level and time-step
Contact	See Webpage (CMC internal)

Notes:

• example data on Pegasus are under:
  /users/dor/armn/ega/data2/sps/experiments/GRIPO_CAPA4/pilot_aggr5_done
/users/dor/armn/ega/data2/sps/experiments/Champlain
• for source code follow instructions on hydrology wiki page to download, compile and use the SPS code, but refer to the SPS webpage and SVS source code Webpage (CMC internal) to use the latest versions of both

c) Land-surface scheme - SVS

Webpage	Webpage link (CMC internal)
Version	1.0 (Date ??)
Source	SVN access
Language	Fortran 90
Sample data	Same as SPS; SPS and SVS run together
Forcings/ output	Binary files (*.fst) with gridded values per variable, level and time-step
Contact	Maria Abrahamowicz

Notes:

• example data on Pegasus are under:
  /users/dor/armn/ega/data2/sps/experiments/GRIPO_CAPA4/pilot_aggr5_done
/users/dor/armn/ega/data2/sps/experiments/Champlain
• see hydrology wiki page (CMC internal) to download and compile at the same time as SPS

d) Routing model - Watroute

Webpage	Webpage link (CMC internal)
Version	No version number
Source	SVN access
Language	Fortran 90
Sample data	Available on Pegasus
Forcings/ output	Binary files (*.fst) with gridded values per variable, level and time-step
Contact	Dorothy Durnford Étienne Garborit Shin Young

Notes:

• working experiment setup to use SVS forcing files on Pegasus are under:
  /users/dor/armn/ega/data2/dataloc2/watr_exp/Champlain
• see hydrology wiki page (CMC internal) to compile

HYdrological Predictions for the Environment – HYPE model

Webpage	Webpage link
Version	5.2.1 (Nov 30, 2017)
Source	Source code link
Language	Fortran 90
Sample data	3 demo basins Sample data link
Forcings/ output	ASCII files (*.txt) with lumped inputs for watershed
Contact	Joy Liu for setting up Grand River Tricia Stadnyk for setting up Lake Erie (major support) Juliane Mai for setting up Lake Erie (minor support)

Notes:

• lumped model
• compiles and runs under Unix after minor revision of file units and line termination

Large Basin Runoff Model – LBRM

Webpage	Webpage link
Version	No version number assigned. (Feb 08, 2016)
Source	Not public. Personal communication with Tim Hunter
Language	Fortran 2003 (small amount C++ code)
Sample data	Not public. Personal communication with Tim Hunter Lake Erie sub basin #1
Forcings/ output	ASCII files (*.txt) with lumped inputs for sub-basins
Contact	Tim Hunter Drew Gronewold

Notes:

• contact Tim Hunter to obtain code
• contact Tim Hunter to obtain sample data and setup
• latest version has not yet been tested outside the larger modeling framework that it typically is operated within (GLSHFS - Great Lakes Hydrological Forecasting System, which integrates the LBRM runoff forecast into a forecast of Net Basin Supply)
• DLBRM is the distributed version of LBRM and is not used in any operational forecasting framework
• input is daily air temperature (max/min) and total precipitation depth.
• output is daily watershed outflow and end-of-day moisture storage in five conceptual tanks.

Modélisation Environnementale communautaire - Surface Hydrology – MESH model

Webpage	Webpage link
Version	1.4.1037 (Feb 17, 2017)
Source	Source code link
Language	Fortran 77 and Fortran 90
Sample data	1 demo basin Sample data link
Forcings/ output	ASCII files (*.r2c) with gridded inputs per variable
Contact	Mohamed Elshamy for setting up Lake Erie (CLASS) Étienne Gaborit for setting up Lake Erie (SVS) Daniel Princz for code questions

Notes:

• needs equi-distant inputs
• compiles and runs under Unix
• access to MESH developer SVN with write permission available through Juliane Mai
• netCDF support under development by Juliane Mai
• serial and MPI version available
• setup for Great Lakes found here

Variable Infiltration Capacity - VIC model

Webpage	Webpage link
Version	5.0.1 (Feb 1, 2017)
Source	Source code link
Language	C
Sample data	Stehekin basin Master #17 Sample data link
Forcings/ output	ASCII files (*.txt) per grid cell or Setup, inputs, and outputs as netCDF
Contact	Hongren Shen for setting up Lake Erie Shervan Gharari for setting up whole Canada Bart Nijssen for code questions

Notes:

• distributed inputs possible
• version has no routing
• compiles and runs under Unix

WATFLOOD model

Webpage	Webpage link
Version	No Version. (Frank has to update)
Source	Not public. Personal communication with Frank Seglenieks
Language	Fortran 90
Sample data	Sample data link
Forcings/ output	ASCII files (*.r2c) with gridded inputs per variable
Contact	Frank Seglenieks for WATFLOOD GRIP-E Nick Kouwen for general WATFLOOD questions

Notes:

• None.

Weather Research and Forecasting Model Hydrological modeling system - WRF-Hydro model

Webpage	Webpage link
Version	5 (public release end of May 2018)
Source	Source code link (after May 2018)
Language	Fortran
Sample data	Sample data link (will be made available with public release of version 5)
Forcings/ output	Input and output in CF-compliant NetCDF format
Contact	Support for general technical support Lauren Read for setup of WRF-Hydro and code development Katelyn Fitzgerald for setup of WRF-Hydro and code development Drew Gronewold for setup of WRF-Hydro

Notes:

• beta version of source code has been made available to beta users only (e.g., GLERL)
• public release of the version 5 code will occur by the end of May
• code will be available on the webpage linked above

Soil & Water Assessment Tool - SWAT model

Webpage	Webpage link
Version	ArcSWAT 2012.10.21
Source	Source code link
Language	Fortran
Sample data	Sample data link
Forcings/ output	Input and output in CF-compliant NetCDF format
Contact	Xiaojing Ni for general technical support Xiaojing Ni for setup of SWAT

Notes:

• SWAT has original source code as Fortran, but users set up and run with GUI or executable as more convenient options.
• Semi-distributed (lumped) model

RAVEN modeling framework

Webpage	Webpage link
Version	???
Source	Source code link (v 2.9) Revision used upon request of SVN registration
Language	C++
Sample data	Sample data link
Forcings/ output	Input and output in CF-compliant NetCDF format or ASCII
Contact	Hongren Shen for model setup James Craig for general technical support Juliane Mai for NetCDF support

Notes:

• Actual code version used here is not released yet and can be requested from James Craig or via registration for the RAVEN SVN.
• RAVEN is a modeling framework. It was setup in lumped (lp) and semi-distributed (sd) GR4J mode. Please contact Hongren Shen for details.

Machine Learning Models

Webpage	Webpage link
Version
Source
Language
Sample data
Forcings/ output
Contact	Martin Gauch for model setup

Notes:

• None.

Noah-MP

Webpage	Webpage link (overview and code of 2D driver) Webpage link (users' site)
Version	Noah-MP Version 1.6
Source	Source code download
Language	Fortran90/95 (small amount C code)
Sample data	Sample data download
Forcings/ output	Input and output in CF-compliant NetCDF format
Contact	Mohammad Reza Najafi for general questions Melika Rahimimovaghar for model setup

Notes:

• None.

mHM-Waterloo

Webpage	Webpage link
Version	Version 5.10
Source	Git access
Language	Fortran90 and beyond
Sample data	Sample data on Git
Forcings/ output	Input in NetCDF format, Output in NetCDF or ASCII
Contact	mHM developers for general questions Meghan McLeod for model setup

Notes:

• mHM operates on grid cells and is using a Muskingum routing.
• it uses additional geology/lithology dataset for baseflow generation (GLIM).

mHM-UFZ

Webpage	Webpage link
Version	Version 5.10
Source	Git access
Language	Fortran90 and beyond
Sample data	Sample data on Git
Forcings/ output	Input in NetCDF format, Output in NetCDF or ASCII
Contact	mHM developers for general questions Oldrich Rakovec for model setup

Notes:

• mHM operates on grid cells and is using a Muskingum routing.
• it uses additional geology/lithology dataset for baseflow generation (GLIM).

HYdrological MODel – HYMOD2-DS

Webpage	Webpage link
Version	Version 2 (2017)
Source	Source code link
Language	Matlab
Sample data	???
Forcings/ output	Distributed inputs used here. Model version available where lumped inputs are used. Forcing provided in ASCII format. Outputs are in Matlab (*.mat) format.
Contact	Tirthankar Roy for setup Tirthankar Roy for general HYMOD questions Sungwook Wi for input data processing

Notes:

• lumped model
• model calibrated at each individual gauge station