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CSDMS 2020 Webinars


USGS National Hydrologic Model: Continental Scale Modeling for Decision-making, Research, and Education



Steve Markstrom

U.S Geological Survey – Water Mission Area, United States
markstro@usgs.gov
Rich McDonald U.S Geological Survey – Water Mission Area United States


Abstract
A comprehensive understanding of hydrologic processes affecting streamflow is required to effectively manage water resources to meet present and future human and environmental needs. The National Hydrologic Model (NHM), developed by the U.S. Geological Survey, can address these needs with an approach supporting coordinated, comprehensive, and consistent hydrologic modeling at multiple scales for the conterminous United States. The NHM fills knowledge gaps in ungaged areas, providing nationally consistent, locally informed, stakeholder relevant results. In this presentation, we will introduce the NHM and a publicly available Dockerized version that is currently providing daily operational results of water availability and stream temperature. We finish with a quick demonstration of a new experimental version of PRMS, the NHMs underlying hydrologic model, available through the CSDMS Python Modeling Toolkit (pymt).




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Of interest for:
  • Terrestrial Working Group
  • Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group
  • Hydrology Focus Research Group