Model:HydroTrend

HydroTrend is made available under the GPL_v3 license. The developer(s) are not responsible for any harm that might be caused by running this program. When applying HydroTrend, please make a reference to: Kettner, A.J., and Syvitski, J.P.M., 2008. HydroTrend version 3.0: a Climate-Driven Hydrological Transport Model that Simulates Discharge and Sediment Load leaving a River System. Computers & Geosciences, 34(10), 1170-1183.

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Introduction

HydroTrend is an ANSI-standard C numerical model that creates synthetic river discharge and sediment load time series as a function of climate trends and basin morphology

HydroTrend is an ANSI-standard C numerical model that creates synthetic river discharge and sediment load time series as a function of climate trends and basin morphology and has been used to study the sediment flux to a basin for basin filling models. As a drainage basin simulator, the model provides time series of daily discharge hydraulics at a river mouth, including the sediment load properties. HydroTrend was designed to provide input to lake or shelf circulation and sedimentation models (Steckler et al., 1996; Syvitski and Alcott, 1995b), and study the impact of land-sea fluxes given climatic change scenarios (Moore, 1992; Syvitski and Andrews, 1994). HydroTrend simulates the major processes that occur in a river basin, including:

• Glacierized areas with advances and retreats depending on the climate scenario,
• Snow accumulation in the winter and melt in the subsequent spring/summer,
• Rainfall over the remaining portions of the basin with canopy evaporation,
• Groundwater recharging and discharging,
• The impact of reservoirs.

History model

HydroTrend, an ANSI-standard C coded program has been developed over many years by a number of researchers. The program started out with the name "RIVER" and was coded in FORTRAN. Over the years, it's capabilities have been built upon and greatly expanded up to RIVER version 5.11. The model development of RIVER and HydroTrend has been under the direction of by James Syvitski. Here is a small overview of all the primairy authors:

Model Name	Version	Main developer	Date
River	1.0	M. Nicholson	April 1992
River	2.0	T. Maceachern	August 1992
River	3.0	J.M. Alcott	July 1993
River	4.0	M. Nicholson	April 1995
River	5.0	M.D. Morehead	October 1996
River	5.1	M.D. Morehead	August 1997
HydroTrend	1.0	M.D. Morehead	1998 - 1999
HydroTrend	2.0	S.D. Peckham	2000 - 2001
HydroTrend	2.3	A.J. Kettner	2002 - 2004
HydroTrend	3.0.x	A.J. Kettner	2004 - now

Current Users

HydroTrend is used by many scientist. Please put your name down in the users list when you are applying HydroTrend. That will give me an idea who and how many people are using the program.

Papers

Papers describing HydroTrend

• Kettner, A.J., and Syvitski, J.P.M., 2008. HydroTrend version 3.0: a Climate-Driven Hydrological Transport Model that Simulates Discharge and Sediment Load leaving a River System. Computers & Geosciences, 34(10), 1170-1183.
• Syvitski, J.P.M., Morehead, M.D. and Nicholson, M., 1998. HYDROTREND: A Climate-driven Hydrologic-Transport Model for Predicting Discharge and Sediment Loads to Lakes or Oceans. Computers & Geosciences, 24(1), 51-68.
• Syvitski, J.P.M., and J.M. Alcott, 1995. RIVER3: Simulation of River Discharge and Sediment Transport. Computers and Geosciences, 21(1), 89-101.

Papers applying HydroTrend

• Kettner, A.J., and Syvitski, J.P.M., 2008. Predicting discharge and sediment flux of the Po River, Italy since the Last Glacial Maximum, in de Boer, P.L., et al., eds., Analogue and numerical forward modelling of sedimentary systems; from understanding to prediction, International Association of Sedimentologists, special publication, 40, 171-190.
• Kettner, A.J., Gomez, B., and Syvitski, J.P.M., 2008. Human catalysts or climate change: which will have a greater impact on the sediment load of the Waipaoa River in the 21st century? IAHS Publ. 325, 425-431.
• Kettner, A.J., Gomez, B., Hutton, E.W.H., and Syvitski, J.P.M., 2008. Late Holocene dispersal and accumulation of terrigenous sediment on Poverty Shelf, New Zealand. Basin Research, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2117.2008.00376.x
• Kettner, A.J., Gomez, B., and Syvitski, J.P.M., 2007. Modeling suspended sediment discharge from the Waipaoa River system, New Zealand: the last 3000 years. Water Resources Research, 43, W07411 dio:10.1029/2006WR005570.
• Kubo, Y., Syvitski, J.P.M., Hutton, E.W.H., Kettner, A.J., 2006. Inverse modeling of post Last Glacial Maximum transgressive sedimentation using 2D-Sedflux: Application to the northern Adriatic Sea. Marine Geology, 234, 233-243.
• Morehead, M., Syvitski, J.P.M, and Hutton, E.W.H., 2001. The link between abrupt climate change and basin stratigraphy: A numerical approach. Global and Planetary Science, 28, 115-135.
• Morehead, M.D., Syvitski, J.P.M., Hutton, E.W.H., and Peckham, S.D. 2003. Modeling the temporal variability in the flux of sediment from ungauged river basins. Global and Planetary Change, 39, 95-110.
• Overeem, I., Syvitski, J.P.M., Hutton, E.W.H., and Kettner, A.J., 2005. Stratigraphic variability due to uncertainty in model boundary conditions: A case-study of the New Jersey Shelf over the last 40,000 years. Marine Geology, 224, 23-41.
• Pratson, L.F., Hutton, E.W.H., Kettner, A.J., and Syvitski, J.P.M., 2007. The impact of floods and storms on the acoustic reflectivity of the inner continental shelf: A modeling assessment. Continental Shelf Research, 27, 542-559.
• Pratson, L.F., Swenson, J., Kettner, A.J., Fedele, J.J., Postma, G., Niedoroda, A.W., Friedrichs, C.T., Syvitski, J.P.M., Paola, C., Steckler, M.S., and Hutton, E.W.H., 2004. Modeling Continental Shelf Formation in the Adriatic Sea and Elsewhere. Oceanography, 17(4), 118-131.
• Syvitski, J.P.M. 2002, Sediment discharge variability in Arctic Rivers: Implications for a Warmer Future. Polar Research, 21(2), 323-330.
• Syvitski, J.P.M., and Kettner, A.J., 2007. On the flux of water and sediment into the Northern Adriatic Sea. Continental Shelf Research, 27, 296-308.
• Syvitski, J.P.M. and Morehead, M.D., 1999. Estimating river-sediment discharge to the ocean: Application to the Eel Margin, northern California. Marine Geology, 154, 13-28.
• Syvitski, J.P.M., Kettner, A.J., Correggiari, A., and Nelson, B.W., 2005. Distributary Channels and their Impact on Sediment Dispersal. Marine Geology, 222-223, 75-94.
• Syvitski, J.P.M, Kettner, A.J., Peckham, S.D., Kao, S-J., 2005. Predicting the Flux of Sediment to the Coastal Zone: Application to the Lanyang watershed, northern Taiwan. Journal of Coastal Research, 21(3), 580-587.
• Syvitski, J.P.M., Morehead, M.D., Bahr, D., and Mulder, T., 2000. Estimating fluvial sediment transport: the Rating Parameters. Water Resource Research, 36(9), 2747-2760.
• Syvitski, J.P.M., Peckham, S.D., Hilberman, R.D., and Mulder, T., 2003. Predicting the terrestrial flux of sediment to the global ocean: a planetary perspective. Sedimentary Geology, 162, 5-24.