SDC Sphy Manual
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    • SPHY Manual
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Theory
        • 2.1 Background
        • Modules
        • Reference and potential evaporation
        • Dynamic vegetation processes
        • Snow processes
        • Glacier processes
        • Soil water processes
        • Soil erosion processes
        • Routing
      • 3. Applications
        • Irrigation management in lowland areas
        • Snow- and glacier-fed river basins
        • Flow forecasting
      • 4. Installation of SPHY
      • 5. SPHY model GUI
        • 5.1 Map canvas layers and GUI interactions
        • 5.2 Top menu buttons
        • 5.3 General settings
        • 5.4 Climate
        • 5.5 Soils
        • 5.6 Groundwater
        • 5.7 Land use
        • 5.8 Glaciers
        • 5.9 Snow
        • 5.10 Routing
        • 5.11 Report options
        • 5.12 Running the model
        • 5.13 Visualizing model output
      • 6. SPHY model preprocessor v1.0
        • 6.1 Overview
        • 6.2 General settings
        • 6.3 Area selection
        • 6.4 Modules
        • 6.5 Basin delineation
        • 6.6 Stations
        • 5.7 Meteorological forcing
      • 7. Build your own SPHY-model
        • Select projection extent and resolution
        • Clone map
        • DEM and Slope
        • Delineate catchment and create local drain direction map
        • Preparing stations map and sub-basins map
        • Glacier fraction map
        • Soil hydraulic properties
        • Other static input maps
        • Meteorological forcing map series
        • Open water evaporation
        • Soil erosion model input
        • Sediment transport
        • Reporting
      • Appendix 1: Input and Output
      • Appendix 2: Hindu Kush-Himalaya database
      • References
      • Copyright
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The Spatial Processes in Hydrology (SPHY) model is a hydrological modeling tool suitable for a wide range of water resource management applications. SPHY is a state-of-the-art, easy to use, robust tool, that can be applied for operational as well as strategic decision support. The SPHY model has been applied and tested in various studies ranging from real-time soil moisture predictions in flat lands, to operational reservoir inflow forecasting applications in mountainous catchments, irrigation scenarios in the Nile Basin, and detailed climate change impact studies in the snow- and glacier-melt dominated the Himalayan region.

SPHY Versions

Since the SPHY model was built, several versions have been released. In the current manual you can find the latest version (SPHY 3.0). In the future, the manuals of the other versions will also be added to gitbook. The current versions of SPHY are:

  • SPHY 3.0

  • SPHY 2.2

  • SPHY 2.0

Journal paper SPHY v2.0

Acknowledgements

The development and publication of the SPHY model source code, its binaries, GUIs, and case-studies has been supported through various (research) projects that were partly or completely funded by the following organizations:

  • Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (CGL2013-42009-R, FJCI-2016-28905)

  • The online version of the manual has been supported by the Swiss Agency for Cooperation and Development (SDC), India

We are very grateful to these organizations that made the development of the SPHY model possible. We hope to continue to collaborate with these organizations in the future in order to further develop and improve the SPHY model and its interfaces.

Copyright

Copyright (C) 2013-2019 FutureWater. The Spatial Processes in HYdrology (SPHY) model is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see: .

Contact:

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Terink, W., A.F. Lutz, G.W.H. Simons, W.W. Immerzeel, P. Droogers. 2015. SPHY v2.0: Spatial Processes in HYdrology. Geoscientific Model Development 8: 2009-2034.
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
European Space Agency (ESA)
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
World Bank
Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland (RVO)
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