Description

The Hydrological Predictions for the Environment (HYPE) model is a semi-distributed catchment model, which simulates water flow and substances on their way from precipitation through different storage compartments and fluxes to the sea (Lindström et al., 2010). The model code is open source and describes hydrological processes in different subbasins, although the algorithms are not purely based on physical laws but of more conceptual nature. It is meant to be applied in a multi-basin manner to achieve high spatial distribution of flow paths in the landscape. It can be evaluated against point measurements in the river network and against spatially distributed observations, such as Earth Observations or interpolated products from in-situ monitoring. The model was initiated in 2003, applied for entire Sweden in 2008 and then for different continents (Pechlivanidis et and Arheimer, 2015; Donnelly et al., 2016; Hundecha et al., 2016; Andersson et al., 2017) and finally for the entire globe (Arheimer et al., 2019).

URL

https://www.smhi.se/en/research/research-departments/hydrology/hype-our-hydrological-model-1.7994

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Last modified: June 12, 2020, 12:29 p.m.