Teaching hydrological modeling with a user-friendly catchment-runoff-model software package

By Jan Seibert, M. Vis. 2012

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Computer models, especially conceptual models, are frequently used for catchment hydrology studies. Teaching hydrological modeling, however, is challenging, since students have to both understand general model concepts and be able to use particular computer programs when learning to apply computer models. Here we present a new version of the HBV ( Hydrologiska Byrans Vattenavdelning ) model. This software provides a user-friendly version that is especially useful for education. Different functionalities, such as an automatic calibration using a genetic algorithm or a Monte Carlo approach, as well as the possibility to perform batch runs with predefined model parameters make the software interesting especially for teaching in more advanced classes and research projects. Different teaching goals related to hydrological modeling are discussed and a series of exercises is suggested to reach these goals.

Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology

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Citations in the corpus

• Evaluating model performance: towards a non-parametric variant of the Kling-Gupta efficiency (2018, methodology): “The HBV runoff model (Hydrologiska Byråns Vattenbalansavdelning, Bergström 1976, Lindström et al. 1997) in the version HBV-light (Seibert and Vis 2012) was used to test the influence of the different objective functions on simulated runoff.”