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Welcome to the GLOFRIM wiki!

Introduction

GLOFRIM is a globally applicable framework for integrated hydrologic-hydrodynamic modelling. Sounds pretty complicated? Then let's just say it provides you a tool allowing for the coupling of different models with each other. In the current version, the coupling is a) spatially explicit: grids are coupled on a cell-to-cell basis b) online: model information is exchanged per time step.

With GLOFRIM we want to contribute to large-scale flood hazard modelling. Hence, the models currently supported are large-scale hydrologic and hydrodynamic models. On the hydrology side, we have two models providing discharge and runoff estimates which subsequently can be used to force various hydrodynamic models:

  1. PCR-GLOBWB: a global hydrologic model computing the water balance for the entire terrestrial surface.
  2. WFLOW: a hydrologic modelling platform containing various models, a.o. SBM and HBV.

The currently supported hydrodynamic models are:

  1. CaMa-Flood: a global 1D routing model by Yamazaki et al. (2011).
  2. Delft3D Flexible Mesh: a multi-purpose 1D-2D hydrodynamic model by Kernkamp et al. (2012).
  3. LISFLOOD-FP: a well reknowned large-scale hydrodynamic model with sub-grid functionality by Bates et al. (2010).

The current stable version (to be found here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.597107) contains only models PCR-GLOBWB, Delft3D Flexible Mesh, and LISFLOOD-FP. All other code found here on GitHub is still under active development and thus should be treated carefully - we do not recommend unsupervised use at the moment.

In the subsequent chapters, we will provide more information on GLOFRIM and explain the steps required to establish the spatially explicit and online coupling.

Liability, Warranty, and Referencing

If you use any part of GLOFRIM, please be aware that we do not take any liability from its use and provide no warranty on model results. Also, include proper reference to the model code if you use any GLOFRIM functionality.

Hoch, J. M., Neal, J. C., Baart, F., van Beek, R., Winsemius, H. C., Bates, P. D., and Bierkens, M. F. P.: GLOFRIM v1.0 – A globally applicable computational framework for integrated hydrological–hydrodynamic modelling, Geosci. Model Dev., 10, 3913-3929, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-3913-2017, 2017.

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