IHACRES Elevation Bands Calibration

Author: copyrights (c) 2008 Stefan Liersch
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Description

The rainfall-runoff model IHACRES.

References

Croke, B.F.W., Merritt, W.S., et al. (2004): A dynamic model for predicting hydrologic response to land cover changes in gauged and ungauged catchments. Journal Of Hydrology, 291(1-2), 115-131.
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 descriptors at the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, North Carolina. Hydrological Processes, 17, 2219-2238.

Parameters

	Name	Type	Identifier	Description	Constraints
Output	Table	data object Table, output, optional	`TABLEout`	-	-
Output	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 number	`NSIM`	Number of Simulations for Calibration	Minimum: 1 Maximum: 10000000 Default: 1000
	Total Catchment Area [km2]	floating point number	`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 number	`NSEMIN`	Minimum Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency required to print simulation to calibration table	Minimum: 0.100000 Maximum: 1.000000 Default: 0.700000

Command Line


Usage: saga_cmd sim_ihacres 4 [-TABLEout ] [-TABLEparms ] [-NELEVBANDS ] [-NSIM ] [-AREA_tot ] [-IHACVERS ] [-STORAGE ] [-SNOW_TOOL ] [-OBJ_FUNC ] [-NSEMIN ]
  -TABLEout:      Table
	data object Table, output, optional
  -TABLEparms:    Table
	data object Table, output, optional
  -NELEVBANDS:
                       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:          Number of Simulations
	integer number
	Minimum: 1
	Maximum: 10000000
	Default: 1000
  -AREA_tot:   Total Catchment Area [km2]
	floating point number
	Default: 0.000000
  -IHACVERS:
                       IHACRES Version
                       	choice
                       	Available Choices:
                       	[0] Jakeman & Hornberger (1993)
                       	[1] Croke et al. (2005) !!! not yet implemented !!!
                       	Default: 0
  -STORAGE:
                       Storage
                       	choice
                       	Available Choices:
                       	[0] Single Storage
                       	[1] Two Parallel Storages
                       	[2] Two Storages in Series !!! not yet implemented !!!
                       	Default: 0
  -SNOW_TOOL:     Using the snow-melt module?
	boolean
	Default: 0
  -OBJ_FUNC:
                       Objective Function
                       	choice
                       	Available Choices:
                       	[0] NSE
                       	[1] NSE high flow
                       	[2] NSE low flow
                       	Default: 0
  -NSEMIN:
                       Minimum Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency
                       	floating point number
                       	Minimum: 0.100000
                       	Maximum: 1.000000
                       	Default: 0.700000