Graphical user interface for rapid set-up of SHETRAN physically-based river catchment model

The SHETRAN physically-based distributed rainfall-runoff modelling system gives detailed simulations in time and space of water flow and sediment and solute transport in river catchments. It is therefore a powerful tool for studying hydrological and environmental impacts associated with land-use and climate change. A Graphical User Interface (GUI) has been developed that allows a catchment data set to be set up quickly using a minimum of information. The GUI has an algorithm for the automatic generation of river channel networks from a DEM and has access to libraries of soil and vegetation parameters.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: ENVSOFT
• Authors: Stephen J. Birkinshaw, Philip James, John Ewen
• Keywords: ENVSOFT 2010, Graphical User Interface, Physically-based Distributed Rainfall-runoff, River Catchments