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HydroMT
ActiveDeltares' Python framework that builds ready-to-run hydrological models from global and local datasets.
by Deltares
- Pricing
- Open Source
- License
- MIT
- Commercial use
- Permitted
- Ecosystem
- Python
- Platform
- Windows, macOS, Linux
Install
pip install hydromtAbout HydroMT
HydroMT (Hydro Model Tools) automates the most tedious part of distributed modelling: turning raw data into a ready-to-run model. Given a region and a data catalogue — global DEMs, land cover, soil, climate forcing, or your own local layers — it builds, updates and analyses model instances for supported engines including Wflow, SFINCS and Delft3D FM.
The data-catalogue concept is the quiet superpower: swap global defaults for local lidar or gauge-corrected rainfall without touching the build workflow. If your team builds more than one model a year, HydroMT turns days of GIS preprocessing into a configuration file.
Where it fits in the workflow
TerrainCatchmentRainfallRunoffRoutingHydraulicsMappingReporting
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