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Depressions—inwardly-draining regions—are … Depressions—inwardly-draining regions—are common to many landscapes. When there is sufficient water availability, depressions take the form of lakes and wetlands; otherwise, they may be dry. Depressions can be hard to model, so hydrological flow models often eliminate them through filling or breaching, producing unrealistic results. However, models that retain depressions are often undesirably expensive to run. Our Depression Hierarchy poster shows how we began to address this by developing a data structure to capture the full topographic complexity of depressions in a region. Here, we present a Fill-Spill-Merge algorithm that utilizes depression hierarchies to rapidly process and distribute runoff. Runoff fills depressions, which then overflow and spill into their neighbors. If both a depression and its neighbor fill, they merge. In case studies, the algorithm runs 90–2,600× faster (with a 2,000–63,000× reduction in compute time) than commonly-used iterative methods and produces a more accurate output. Complete, well-commented, open-source code with 97% test coverage is available on Github and Zenodo.overage is available on Github and Zenodo. +
Fill-Spill-Merge: Fast flow modeling in nested depressions +
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Lawrence Berkeley National Lab +
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1) Environmental seismology and distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) +
4) Xarray for Scalable Scientific Data Analysis +
2) Rapid hypothesis testing and analysis with the open-source delta model pyDeltaRCM +
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