abcdBALRV.txt

abcd: name of discharge gauges

It gives monthly water balance of river channel in the upper stream of the discharge gauge abcd.

Data description: BALRV.txt

 abcdBALOG.txt

abcd: name of discharge gauges

It gives monthly water balance of ground water reservoir in the upper stream of the discharge gauge abcd.

Data description: BALOG.txt

 abcdBALCS.txt

abcd: name of discharge gauges

It gives monthly water balance of land surface (canopy, surface storage, unsaturated soil zone) in the upper stream of the discharge gauge abcd.

Data description: BALCS.txt

 abcdBALEN.txt

abcd: name of discharge gauges

It gives monthly water balance of energy components in the upper stream of the discharge gauge abcd.

Data description: BALEN.txt

Monthly water balance check is done for each sub-basin controlled by the discharge gauges in the output gauge list. The components for which the monthly water balance are check include river channel, groundwater, land surface (canopy, surface storage, unsaturated soil zone), and energy balance. 

Water Balance Check

Developed by Qiuhong Tang

Distributed Biosphere-Hydrological Model System

The University of Tokyo

E-mail: qiuhong (at) hydro.washington.edu

To contact the model maker:

DBH Model Output Files

Q. Tang, T. Oki, and S. Kanae

 MMYYYY_xxxx.asc

MMYYYY: month and year

xxxx: water or energy component, below list the components

ETmass_h: evapotranspiration (mm)

tprec_h: precipitation (mm)

roff_h: runoff (mm)

dSiB: water change in land surface (canopy, surface storage, unsaturated soil zone)  (mm)

GWdep_h: groundwater depth (m)

wreq: water withdrawals requirement (mm)

wthd: actual water withdrawals (mm)

fshort: actual water withdrawals / water withdrawals requirement

tgwir: direct irrigation infiltration to groundwater (mm)

retnfw: direct return flow (mm)

assimn: canopy assimilation flux (mol m-2 s-1) ( monthly averaged)

tc: canopy temperature (K)

tg: ground surface temperature (K)

td: deep soil temperature (K)

raet: latent heat (radiation for evaporation, w m-2)

raht: radiation for sensible heating (w m-2)

Monthly distributed simulated results are output with ArcInfo ASCII format. Both water and energy components are exported.

Distributed Simulated Results

 abcd_k.asc

abcd: station name of the discharge gauges

k: the time step (h: hourly; d: daily; m: monthly; y: annual)

Hourly file

ASCII file with five columns (year, month, day, hour, simulated discharge [m3/s] ):

         i_y         i_m         i_d         i_h          Qh

Daily  file

ASCII file with five columns (year, month, day, simulated discharge [m3/s], observed discharge [m3/s]):

         i_y          i_m          i_d           Qd       Qd_obv

Monthly file

ASCII file with four columns (year, month, simulated discharge [m3/s], observed discharge [m3/s]):

         i_y          i_m           Qm       Qm_obv

Annual file

ASCII file with three columns (year, simulated discharge [m3/s], observed discharge [m3/s]):

         i_y           Qy       Qy_obv

 abcd_P_DOS_K.txt

abcd: station name of the discharge gauges

K: the time step (D: daily; M: monthly; Y: annual)

ASCII file with three columns (precipitation [mm], observed runoff [mm], simulated runoff [mm]).

 

Simulate discharge is compared to observations at the discharge gauges in different time step. The mean precipitation and runoff depth over the drainage are controlled by the discharge gauges are output.

Discharge comparison

 Ver_kkk.asc

kkk: verification time step and method (day: daily; month: monthly; year: annual; month_spe: averaged monthly)

Line 1: time step and method

Line 2: items (station name, MSSS, RMSE, RRMSE, the proportion of overall bias error, amplitude error, and phase error in mean square error [refer to (Murphy, 1988) doi: 10.1175/1520-0493(1988)116<2417:SSBOTM>2.0.CO;2] )

                 Day

             Station        MSSS        rmse       rrmse        mean   amplitude       phase

The mean square skill score (MSSS), root mean square error (RMSE), relative root mean square error (RRMSE) etc are used to evaluate the model performance.

Model verification

 abcd_loca.asc

abcd: station name of the discharge gauges

ArcInfo ASCII file, give the area controlled by the discharge gauge

 interval.asc

Flow interval (Hydrotopes) map

 iumd.asc

Identify upper stream, middle stream, and downstream of the river basin. (Currently, the 5th and 11th gauge stations are used to divide upper-middle and middle-down streams. It should be reset according to different river. )

 appcoff1.asc, bppcoff1.asc, and cppcoff1.asc

ArcInfo ASCII file, give a, b, c parameter for precipitation distribution

 RivB.asc, RivH.asc, and RivN.asc

ArcInfo ASCII file, give river channel width (B), river channel height (H), and river channel roughness (N)

 B_exp.asc, K_s.asc, Porosity.asc, Psi_s.asc, and Soil_slp.asc

ArcInfo ASCII file, give soil parameters soil characteristic curve parameter b (B_exp.asc), Saturated hydraulic conductivity (K_s.asc), Porosity (Porosity.asc), Saturated soil moisture potential (Psi_s.asc) and averaged slope derived from soil map (Soil_slp.asc).

 stnctl_area.asc

ASCII file, give the area controlled by the discharge gauges and the irrigation area in the drainage area which is controlled by the discharge gauges.

 xxxx_in.txt

ASCII file, give spatially averaged atmospheric forcing data (daily) and vegetation condition data (monthly) over the entire river basin.

xxxx: atmospheric forcing items

ET: reference evapotranspiration from FAO Penman-Monteith equation

RSUM: precipitation

SUN: sunshine duration

TM: daily mean temperature

TMAX: daily maximum temperature

TMIN: daily minimum temperature

UM: relative humidity

FSM: wind speed

FPAR: Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation

LAI: Leaf Area Index

 areairr.txt

Irrigation area data

The input parameters are output. It is highly recommended to check all the input parameters and make sure the model parameters is reasonable. The distributed maps are provided in ArcInfo ASCII file format. The file is put at directory ./Derive_D/ (default setting of the DBH model system).

Input check