CROPWAT
Free
FAO's classic tool for crop water requirements and irrigation scheduling from climate and crop data.
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hydroeval
StableA tiny Python package that computes NSE, KGE and friends correctly — the metrics layer of model evaluation.
- Pricing
- Open Source
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Commercial use
- Permitted
- Ecosystem
- Python, NumPy
- Platform
- Windows, macOS, Linux
Install
pip install hydroevalAbout hydroeval
hydroeval does one thing: evaluate simulated against observed streamflow with the standard efficiency metrics — Nash-Sutcliffe, the Kling-Gupta family (original, 2012, non-parametric), RMSE, MARE, and Bounded versions — implemented on NumPy with proper NaN handling.
It earns its place by being the boring, correct dependency: no plotting opinions, no data model, just vetted metric implementations you can cite. Pair it with any model wrapper or forecasting pipeline where a hand-rolled NSE would invite subtle bugs.
Where it fits in the workflow
TerrainCatchmentRainfallRunoffRoutingHydraulicsMappingReporting
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