<span style="" class="text typewriter">airGRteaching</span>: an open-source tool for teaching hydrological modeling with R

<p>Hydrological modeling is at the core of most studies related to water, especially for anticipating disasters, managing water resources, and planning adaptation strategies. Consequently, teaching hydrological modeling is an important, but difficult, matter. Teaching hydrological modeling req...

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Main Authors: O. Delaigue, P. Brigode, G. Thirel, L. Coron
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2023-09-01
Series:Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Online Access:https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/27/3293/2023/hess-27-3293-2023.pdf
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Summary:<p>Hydrological modeling is at the core of most studies related to water, especially for anticipating disasters, managing water resources, and planning adaptation strategies. Consequently, teaching hydrological modeling is an important, but difficult, matter. Teaching hydrological modeling requires appropriate software and teaching material (exercises, projects); however, although many hydrological modeling tools exist today, only a few are adapted to teaching purposes. In this article, we present the <code>airGRteaching</code> package, which is an open-source R package. The hydrological models that can be used in <code>airGRteaching</code> are the GR rainfall-runoff models, i.e., lumped processed-based models, allowing streamflows to be simulated, including the GR4J model. In this package, thanks to a graphical user interface and a limited number of functions, numerous hydrological modeling exercises representing a wide range of hydrological applications are proposed. To ease its use by students and teachers, the package contains several vignettes describing complete projects that can be proposed to investigate various topics such as streamflow reconstruction, hydrological forecasting, and assessment of climate change impact.</p>
ISSN:1027-5606
1607-7938