The mesoscale Hydrological Model -- mHM

• The latest mHM release can be found here.
• The changelog can be found in the file RELEASES.
• General information can be found on the mHM website.
• The mHM comes with a LICENSE agreement, this includes also the GNU Lesser General Public License.
• There is a list of publications using mHM.

Please note: The GitLab repository grants read access to the code. If you like to contribute to the code, please contact [email protected].

Documentation

The online documentation for mHM can be found here (pdf versions are provided there as well):

• stable: https://mhm.pages.ufz.de/mhm
• latest: https://mhm.pages.ufz.de/mhm/latest

Cite as

Please refer to the main model by citing Samaniego et al. (2010) and Kumar et al. (2013):

Samaniego L., R. Kumar, S. Attinger (2010): Multiscale parameter regionalization of a grid-based hydrologic model at the mesoscale. Water Resour. Res., 46,W05523, doi:10.1029/2008WR007327, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2008WR007327/abstract

Kumar, R., L. Samaniego, and S. Attinger (2013): Implications of distributed hydrologic model parameterization on water fluxes at multiple scales and locations, Water Resour. Res., 49, doi:10.1029/2012WR012195, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2012WR012195/abstract

The model code can be generally cited as:

mHM: Luis Samaniego et al., mesoscale Hydrologic Model. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1069202, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1069202

To cite a certain version, have a look at the Zenodo site.

Install

mHM can be compiled with cmake. See more details under cmake manual. See also the documentation for detailed instructions to setup mHM.

Quick start

1. Compile mHM
2. Run mHM on the test domains with the command ./mhm, which uses settings from mhm.nml.
3. Explore the results in the output directory, e.g. by using the NetCDF viewer ncview.

License

LGPLv3 (c) 2005-2023 mHM-Developers