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HyRiver
ActiveA Python software stack for US hydrology data: NHD+ networks, gauges, DEMs, soils and climate via one API family.
- Pricing
- Open Source
- License
- MIT
- Commercial use
- Permitted
- Ecosystem
- Python, GeoPandas, xarray
- Platform
- Windows, macOS, Linux
Install
pip install pygeohydroAbout HyRiver
HyRiver is a family of Python packages (PyNHD, PyGeoHydro, Py3DEP, PyDaymet and siblings) that together cover the US hydrology data landscape: NHDPlus river networks and navigation, USGS gauges, 3DEP elevation, soils, land cover, and Daymet/GridMET climate forcing — all returned as GeoPandas/xarray objects ready for analysis.
The value is the composition: delineate from NHDPlus, attach gauges, pull DEM and forcing for the basin — one coherent scripted workflow. For US-focused Python hydrology it has become the data-access layer of choice.
Where it fits in the workflow
TerrainCatchmentRainfallRunoffRoutingHydraulicsMappingReporting
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