ABOUT:
This is the model chain software to control the RFS-Ecuador. The model chain produces a cron job that carries out the RFS system at instructed time points to produce hydrological indicators. The model chain includes the following three steps:
1. Preprocess for and execute external drift krigging with elevation
as the external drift variable to interpolate
meteorologic fields at required resolution from input data source
(e.g. radar precipitation). The software being used is the
external drift kriging (EDK) Fortran program developed at the
Dept. Computational Hydrosystems at the Helmholtz Centre for
Environmental Research - UFZ
EDK in Git: https://git.ufz.de/chs/progs/edk_nc
2. Preprocess EDK prepared meteorological forcings and execute a
distributed precipitation-runoff model to obtain soil moisture
fields. The model software being used is the mesoscale Hydrological
Model (mHM) Fortran program developed at the Dept. Computational
Hydrosystems at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
- UFZ
mHM in Git: https://git.ufz.de/mhm/mhm
3. Preprocess the mHM soil moisture output and calculate soil moisture
drought index fields from the soil moisture fields. The software
being used is the Soil Moisture Index (SMI) Fortran program
developed at the Dept. Computational Hydrosystems at the Helmholtz
Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
SMI in Git: https://git.ufz.de/chs/progs/SMI/-/tree/master
AUTHORS:
>> Santiago Quiñones
>> Fernando Oñate
Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja
Water Resources Section
Ecuador
>> Pallav Kumar Shrestha
Computational Hydrosystems
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Germany
>> Luis Samaniego
Computational Hydrosystems
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Germany