References
Model Development
The HydroRaVENS model is described on the Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System (CSDMS) model page:
Snowpack and Rain-on-Snow
Hock, R. (2003). Temperature index melt modelling in mountain areas. Journal of Hydrology, 282(1-4), 104–115. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-1694(03)00257-9
McCabe, G. J., Hay, L. E., & Clark, M. P. (2007). Rain-on-snow events in the western United States. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 88(3), 319–328. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-88-3-319
Würzer, S., Jonas, T., Wever, N., & Lehning, M. (2016). Influence of initial snowpack properties on runoff formation during rain-on-snow events. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 17(6), 1801–1815. https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-15-0181.1
Frozen Ground
Dunne, T., & Black, R. D. (1971). Runoff processes during snowmelt. Water Resources Research, 7(5), 1160–1172. https://doi.org/10.1029/WR007i005p01160
Molnau, M., & Bissell, V. C. (1983). A continuous frozen ground index for flood forecasting. Proceedings of the 51st Annual Western Snow Conference, pp. 109–119. https://westernsnowconference.org/bibliography/1983Molnau.pdf (Original source for the continuous frozen ground index formulation, including the exponential snow-depth insulation factor.)
Shanley, J. B., & Chalmers, A. (1999). The effect of frozen soil on snowmelt runoff at Sleepers River, Vermont. Hydrological Processes, 13(12–13), 1843–1857. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1085(199909)13:12/13<1843::AID-HYP879>3.0.CO;2-G
Evapotranspiration
Allen, R. G., Pereira, L. S., Raes, D., & Smith, M. (1998). Crop Evapotranspiration: Guidelines for Computing Crop Water Requirements. FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56. FAO, Rome. https://www.fao.org/3/x0490e/x0490e00.htm (Equations 2–4 used for photoperiod computation in the Thornthwaite–Chang method.)
Camargo, A. P., Marin, F. R., Sentelhas, P. C., & Picini, A. G. (1999). Adjust of the Thornthwaite’s method to estimate the potential evapotranspiration for arid and superhumid climates based on daily temperature amplitude. Revista Brasileira de Agrometeorologia, 7(2), 251–257. (Source for the k = 0.72 coefficient for monthly ET₀.)
Chang, X., Wang, S., Gao, Z., Luo, Y., & Chen, H. (2019). Forecast of daily reference evapotranspiration using a modified daily Thornthwaite equation and temperature forecasts. Irrigation and Drainage, 68(2), 297–317. https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.2309
Pereira, A. R., & Pruitt, W. O. (2004). Adaptation of the Thom and Oliver evaporation equation to daily totals. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 124(1-2), 26–32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2004.01.005
Reservoir Cascade Structure
Bergström, S. (1976). Development and Application of a Conceptual Runoff Model for Scandinavian Catchments. SMHI Report RHO 7. Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping. (Original HBV model; multi-component runoff cascade structure.)
Channel Routing
Nash, J. E. (1957). The form of the instantaneous unit hydrograph. IAHS Publication, 45, 114–121. (Original source for the N-reservoir Nash cascade and its gamma IUH.)
Dooge, J. C. I. (1959). A general theory of the unit hydrograph. Journal of Geophysical Research, 64(2), 241–256. https://doi.org/10.1029/JZ064i002p00241
Rodriguez-Iturbe, I., & Valdés, J. B. (1979). The geomorphologic structure of hydrologic response. Water Resources Research, 15(6), 1409–1420. https://doi.org/10.1029/WR015i006p01409
Model Calibration and Evaluation
Eckhardt, K. (2005). How to construct recursive digital baseflow separation filters: A discussion of two alternative filtering approaches. Hydrological Processes, 19(2), 507–515. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.5675
Yilmaz, K. K., Gupta, H. V., & Wagener, T. (2008). A process-based
diagnostic approach to model evaluation: Application to the NWS
distributed hydrological model.
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2007WR006716
(Basis for the KGE_logKGE composite metric: no single efficiency
measure captures both high- and low-flow behaviour.)
Gupta, H. V., Kling, H., Yilmaz, K. K., & Martinez, G. F. (2009). Decomposition of the mean squared error and NSE: Implications for improving hydrological modelling. Journal of Hydrology, 377(1-2), 80–91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.08.003
Nash, J. E., & Sutcliffe, J. V. (1970). River flow forecasting through conceptual models part I – A discussion of principles. Journal of Hydrology, 10(3), 282–290. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-1694(70)90255-6
Software
Harris, C. R., et al. (2020). Array programming with NumPy. Nature, 585, 357–362. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2
McKinney, W. (2010). Data structures for statistical computing in Python. In Proceedings of the 9th Python in Science Conference (Vol. 445, pp. 56–61).