Wouter J. M. Knoben
University of Saskatchewan | Postdoctoral Fellow
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NOTE: The shapefile in this resource represents a work in progress.
This shapefile shows a hierarchical classification of the North American continent into hydrologically meaningful regions. The classification consists of 5 broad domains, subdivided further into 35 hydrologic provinces. The province outlines are derived from existing polygons that outline the Level III Eco-Regions of North America. The hydrologic domains are color coded (north = blue, west = red, central = yellow, east = green, island = purple); the provinces are named within the shapefile and shown in a shade representative of their domain. A ready-to-use image is provided in the PDF file. The boundaries of the provinces were derived through multiple community workshops and expert consultations. This process, the reasoning for drawing the boundaries where they are, and perceptual models of hydrologic behavior for each province will be described in an upcoming set of publications.
The files in this resource are provided here to make it possible to start using this classification, with the understanding that this is a work-in-progress. We ask users to check for a final set of citations in due course.
This research was supported by the Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology (CIROH) with funding under award NA22NWS4320003 from the NOAA Cooperative Institute Program. The statements, findings, conclusions, and recommendations are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of NOAA.
ABSTRACT:
This resource provides the necessary code to run all exercises of the CIROH_HydroLearn Course "Model structure uncertainty with MARRMoT".
The course can be found here: https://edx.hydrolearn.org/courses/course-v1:CIROH_HydroLearn+TUD_MHYD03_MARRMoT+2025/about
Please note that this resource includes only a subset of MARRMoT model structures and four workflow examples on how to use MARRMoT.
It is not a full version of the modelling toolbox.
ABSTRACT:
This resource provides the necessary code to run all exercises of the CIROH_HydroLearn Course "Model structure uncertainty with MARRMoT".
The course can be found here: https://edx.hydrolearn.org/courses/course-v1:CIROH_HydroLearn+TUD_MHYD03_MARRMoT+2025/about
Please note that this resource includes only a subset of MARRMoT model structures and four workflow examples on how to use MARRMoT.
It is not a full version of the modelling toolbox.
ABSTRACT:
This resource contains the ESRI shapefiles used during basin delineation of the CAMELS-spat database. CAMELS-spat contains a collection of river basins in the United States and Canada that can be used for model evaluation and improvement. These shapefiles are provided here to increase reproducibility of the data set creation process.
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Test cases for the Structure for Unifying Multiple Modeling Alternatives (SUMMA; Clark et al., 2015a,b,c, 2021) v3.x.
Note that SUMMA v3.x is structured differently than SUMMA v1.x and v2.x, and these test cases do not work with earlier SUMMA versions. See the included README for further details.
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Created: Sept. 19, 2020, 11:33 p.m.
Authors: Knoben, Wouter J. M. · Gharari, Shervan · Bennett, Andrew · Nijssen, Bart · Clark, Martyn P.
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Hydrologic simulations with the Structure for Unifying Multiple Modelling Alternatives (SUMMA) for the Bow river above Banff, AB, Canada. Contains simulations for four different spatial discretizations, including routing results where applicable.
Hydrologic model: SUMMA (Clark et al., 2015a,b)
Routing: mizuRoute (Mizukami et al., 2016)
Meteorologic forcing data: WRF (Liu et al., 2017)
Soil classes: derived from sand/soil/silt % in SOILGRIDS (Hengl et al., 2017)
Land use classes: MODIS Vegetation and land use (Friedl et al., 2019)
Created: March 24, 2021, 10:31 p.m.
Authors: Knoben, Wouter J. M.
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This resource contains a global map of soil texture classes, derived from SOILGRIDS data (Hengl et al., 2017) using the revised soil texture triangle definitions from Benham et al. (2009). Global maps of sand, silt and clay percentages were downloaded for 7 soil depths (0, 5, 15, 30, 60, 100 and 200 cm) at the native SOILGRIDS resolution of 250 m by 250 m. For each depth, percentages were converted into 1 out of 12 possible soil texture classes. The map in this resource represents the mode soil texture class over the 7 depths at each pixel. In case of a tie on a given pixel (i.e. two or more soil texture classes occur the most often with an equal number of times), the lowest class number is shown. This is a choice of convenience; no physical considerations support this choice.
Soil texture class definitions:
0: no class assigned (source data sand, silt, clay percentages all contain "no data" values)
1: Clay
2: Clay loam
3: Loam
4: Loamy sand
5: Sand
6: Sandy clay
7: Sandy clay loam
8: Sandy loam
9: Silt
10: Silty clay
11: Silty clay loam
12: Silt loam
Source data downloaded on 25-26 April, 2020, from: https://files.isric.org/soilgrids/data/recent/. URL has since changed to: https://files.isric.org/soilgrids/former/2017-03-10/data/. Code used to generate this map can be found in the folder `code` that is part of this resource.
Created: July 27, 2022, 2:03 a.m.
Authors: Knoben, Wouter J. M. · Clark, Martyn P. · Gharari, Shervan · Tang, Guoqiang
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Hydrologic modeling can benefit from well-documented workflows that track every decision made during model configuration. Such a workflow is described in the paper "Community Workflows to Advance Reproducibility in Hydrologic Modeling: Separating model-agnostic and model-specific configuration steps in applications of large-domain hydrologic models". This resource contains the ESRI shapefiles used in this paper's global and continental test cases. The shapefiles are provided per continent (excluding Greenland and Antarctica) and contain both river basin discretizations and river networks. These shapefiles are based on the Merit Hydro basin delineation (Lin et al., 2019) and differ from that work only in small ways. They are provided here to provide full traceability of the work presented in the "Community Workflows" paper.
Created: Oct. 19, 2022, 5:41 p.m.
Authors: Knoben, Wouter J. M. · Clark, Martyn P. · Nijssen, Bart · Wood, Andrew W · Bennett, Andrew
ABSTRACT:
Test cases for the Structure for Unifying Multiple Modeling Alternatives (SUMMA; Clark et al., 2015a,b,c, 2021) v3.x.
Note that SUMMA v3.x is structured differently than SUMMA v1.x and v2.x, and these test cases do not work with earlier SUMMA versions. See the included README for further details.
Created: Nov. 10, 2022, 8:38 p.m.
Authors: Knoben, Wouter J. M. · Clark, Martyn P.
ABSTRACT:
This resource contains the ESRI shapefiles used during basin delineation of the CAMELS-spat database. CAMELS-spat contains a collection of river basins in the United States and Canada that can be used for model evaluation and improvement. These shapefiles are provided here to increase reproducibility of the data set creation process.
Created: Jan. 16, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
Authors: Spieler, Diana · Knoben, Wouter J. M.
ABSTRACT:
This resource provides the necessary code to run all exercises of the CIROH_HydroLearn Course "Model structure uncertainty with MARRMoT".
The course can be found here: https://edx.hydrolearn.org/courses/course-v1:CIROH_HydroLearn+TUD_MHYD03_MARRMoT+2025/about
Please note that this resource includes only a subset of MARRMoT model structures and four workflow examples on how to use MARRMoT.
It is not a full version of the modelling toolbox.
Created: Feb. 14, 2025, 6:52 p.m.
Authors: Spieler, Diana · Knoben, Wouter J. M.
ABSTRACT:
This resource provides the necessary code to run all exercises of the CIROH_HydroLearn Course "Model structure uncertainty with MARRMoT".
The course can be found here: https://edx.hydrolearn.org/courses/course-v1:CIROH_HydroLearn+TUD_MHYD03_MARRMoT+2025/about
Please note that this resource includes only a subset of MARRMoT model structures and four workflow examples on how to use MARRMoT.
It is not a full version of the modelling toolbox.
Created: Oct. 10, 2025, 9:26 p.m.
Authors: Knoben, Wouter J. M. · McMillan, Hilary · Fan, Ying · Carney, Shaun · Garousi-Nejad, Irene · Masterman, Julia · Read, Jordan Stuart · van Werkhoven, Katie · Clark, Martyn P.
ABSTRACT:
NOTE: The shapefile in this resource represents a work in progress.
This shapefile shows a hierarchical classification of the North American continent into hydrologically meaningful regions. The classification consists of 5 broad domains, subdivided further into 35 hydrologic provinces. The province outlines are derived from existing polygons that outline the Level III Eco-Regions of North America. The hydrologic domains are color coded (north = blue, west = red, central = yellow, east = green, island = purple); the provinces are named within the shapefile and shown in a shade representative of their domain. A ready-to-use image is provided in the PDF file. The boundaries of the provinces were derived through multiple community workshops and expert consultations. This process, the reasoning for drawing the boundaries where they are, and perceptual models of hydrologic behavior for each province will be described in an upcoming set of publications.
The files in this resource are provided here to make it possible to start using this classification, with the understanding that this is a work-in-progress. We ask users to check for a final set of citations in due course.
This research was supported by the Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology (CIROH) with funding under award NA22NWS4320003 from the NOAA Cooperative Institute Program. The statements, findings, conclusions, and recommendations are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of NOAA.