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SPOTPY
StablePython toolbox for calibrating and uncertainty-analysing any environmental model — SCE-UA, DREAM, GLUE and more.
- Pricing
- Open Source
- License
- MIT
- Commercial use
- Permitted
- Ecosystem
- Python
- Platform
- Windows, macOS, Linux
Install
pip install spotpyAbout SPOTPY
SPOTPY (Statistical Parameter Optimization Tool for Python) wraps a model — any model you can call from Python — in a consistent interface and throws a library of algorithms at its parameters: SCE-UA, DREAM, Monte Carlo, Latin hypercube, GLUE, simulated annealing and more, with likelihood and objective-function utilities included.
For hydrologists it is the pragmatic route to defensible calibration and uncertainty bounds without writing samplers from scratch. If your rainfall-runoff model runs from a function call, SPOTPY can calibrate it this afternoon.
Where it fits in the workflow
TerrainCatchmentRainfallRunoffRoutingHydraulicsMappingReporting
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