Hydrology and Forcing#
How HydroModPy prepares and transfers climatic and recharge-related information toward the groundwater-flow solvers: recharge generation, PyHELP coupling, time aggregation, and the semantics of surface exchange.
Streams and seepage live next door
If you are looking for stream networks, simulated active streams, seepage, or drainage outflow, go to Streams And Seepage instead. The hydrology pages here focus on forcing chains; the streams section focuses on what the model returns at the surface.
Topic pages#
End-to-end view of how climatic inputs become recharge and runoff terms consumed by the flow solver.
How daily, monthly, and stress-period scales are reconciled before the solver sees them. Includes the first-clim convention.
Distinction between recharge, runoff, ETP, and boundary exchange. How the same physical signal can be routed via different package paths.
Boundary conditions at the groundwater interface: how rivers, oceans, and drainage outlets are represented across backends.
Post-solve diagnostic: how stored drainage fluxes are thresholded into a spatial network for comparison with observed hydrography.
See also#
Groundwater Flow Problem Definition for the governing equation that consumes the forcings described here.
Data Loading And Retrieval for the operational data managers that retrieve and cache these forcings.