Tool IHACRES Elevation Bands Calibration
The Rainfall-Runoff Model IHACRES 
 
 
Reference: 
 
Jakeman, A.J. / Hornberger, G.M. (1993). 
How Much Complexity Is Warranted in a Rainfall-Runoff Model? 
Water Resources Research, (29), NO. 8 (2637-2649) 
 
Kokkonen, T. S. et al. (2003). 
Predicting daily flows in ungauged catchments:model regionalization from catchment descriptorsat the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, North Carolina 
 Hydrological Processes (17), 2219-2238 
 
Croke, B. F. W., W. S. Merritt, et al. (2004).
A dynamic model for predicting hydrologic responseto land cover changes in gauged andungauged catchments. 
Journal Of Hydrology 291(1-2): 115-131.
- Author: copyrights (c) 2008 Stefan Liersch
 
- Menu: Simulation|Hydrology|IHACRES
 
Parameters
|   | Name | Type | Identifier | Description | Constraints | 
| Output | Table (*) | Data Object Table, output, optional | TABLEout | - | - | 
 | Table (*) | Data Object Table, output, optional | TABLEparms | - | - | 
| Options | Number of elevation bands | Choice | NELEVBANDS | - | Available Choices: [0] 2 [1] 3 [2] 4 [3] 5 [4] 6 [5] 7 [6] 8 [7] 9 [8] 10 Default: 0 | 
 | Number of Simulations | Integer | NSIM | Number of Simulations for Calibration | Minimum: 1 Maximum: 10000000 Default: 1000 | 
 | Total Catchment Area [km2] | Floating point | AREA_tot | - | Default: 0.000000 | 
 | IHACRES Version | Choice | IHACVERS | - | Available Choices: [0] Jakeman & Hornberger (1993) [1] Croke et al. (2005) !!! not yet implemented !!! Default: 0 | 
 | Storage | Choice | STORAGE | - | Available Choices: [0] Single Storage [1] Two Parallel Storages [2] Two Storages in Series !!! not yet implemented !!! Default: 0 | 
 | Using the snow-melt module? | Boolean | SNOW_TOOL | If checked, snow-melt module is used. | Default: 0 | 
 | Objective Function | Choice | OBJ_FUNC | - | Available Choices: [0] NSE [1] NSE high flow [2] NSE low flow Default: 0 | 
 | Minimum Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency | Floating point | NSEMIN | Minimum Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency required to print simulation to calibration table | Minimum: 0.100000 Maximum: 1.000000 Default: 0.700000 | 
| (*) optional | 
Command-line
Usage: saga_cmd sim_ihacres 4 [-TABLEout <str>] [-TABLEparms <str>] [-NELEVBANDS <str>] [-NSIM <num>] [-AREA_tot <double>] [-IHACVERS <str>] [-STORAGE <str>] [-SNOW_TOOL <str>] [-OBJ_FUNC <str>] [-NSEMIN <double>]
  -TABLEout:<str>   	Table
	Data Object Table, output, optional
  -TABLEparms:<str> 	Table
	Data Object Table, output, optional
  -NELEVBANDS:<str> 	Number of elevation bands
	Choice
	Available Choices:
	[0] 2
	[1] 3
	[2] 4
	[3] 5
	[4] 6
	[5] 7
	[6] 8
	[7] 9
	[8] 10
	Default: 0
  -NSIM:<num>       	Number of Simulations
	Integer
	Minimum: 1
	Maximum: 10000000
	Default: 1000
  -AREA_tot:<double>	Total Catchment Area [km2]
	Floating point
	Default: 0.000000
  -IHACVERS:<str>   	IHACRES Version
	Choice
	Available Choices:
	[0] Jakeman & Hornberger (1993)
	[1] Croke et al. (2005) !!! not yet implemented !!!
	Default: 0
  -STORAGE:<str>    	Storage
	Choice
	Available Choices:
	[0] Single Storage
	[1] Two Parallel Storages
	[2] Two Storages in Series !!! not yet implemented !!!
	Default: 0
  -SNOW_TOOL:<str>  	Using the snow-melt module?
	Boolean
	Default: 0
  -OBJ_FUNC:<str>   	Objective Function
	Choice
	Available Choices:
	[0] NSE
	[1] NSE high flow
	[2] NSE low flow
	Default: 0
  -NSEMIN:<double>  	Minimum Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency
	Floating point
	Minimum: 0.100000
	Maximum: 1.000000
	Default: 0.700000