unifhycontrib.artemis

class unifhycontrib.artemis.SubSurfaceComponent

Artemis provides a simple runoff production model designed to be comparable with the runoff-production models typically embedded within climate models.

It is driven with precipitation, radiation, temperature, humidity and wind speed on a daily time step and calculates canopy interception, evaporation, snowmelt, infiltration, and runoff. It uses a Rutter–Gash canopy formulation (Gash, 1979) to represent interception, together with Penman–Monteith evaporation calculated using available radiation data (Monteith, 1965). Soil moisture is accounted for using a two-layer model with saturation-excess runoff computed using a generalized TOPMODEL (Clark and Gedney, 2008). The snowpack is represented using a temperature-based model of accumulation and melt (Moore et al., 1999, Hock, 2003, Beven, 2011). Snow accumulates when precipitation falls while temperature is below a threshold temperature. When temperature is above a threshold for melt, melting occurs at a rate proportional to the difference between the current temperature and the melting temperature. This conceptual model is widely used (Hock, 2003, Zhang et al., 2006, Rango and Martinec, 1995, Beven, 2011) and gives performance comparable with that of more parameter rich energy balance models, despite their greater complexity (Parajka et al., 2010).

The sub-surface component of Artemis comprises infiltration and runoff.

Contributors

Simon Dadson [1,2]

Affiliations
  1. UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

  2. School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford

Licence

BSD-3

Copyright

2020, University of Oxford

Inputs

name

topmodel_saturation_capacity

units

mm m-1

kind

static

name

saturated_hydraulic_conductivity

units

m s-1

kind

static

name

topographic_index

units

1

kind

static

Inwards

name

canopy_liquid_throughfall_and_snow_melt_flux

units

kg m-2 s-1

from

surfacelayer

method

mean

name

transpiration_flux_from_root_uptake

units

kg m-2 s-1

from

surfacelayer

method

mean

Outwards

name

soil_water_stress_for_transpiration

units

1

to

surfacelayer

method

mean

name

surface_runoff_flux_delivered_to_rivers

units

kg m-2 s-1

to

openwater

method

mean

name

net_groundwater_flux_to_rivers

units

kg m-2 s-1

to

openwater

method

mean

Constants

name

m

description

K_sat decay constant - Marthews et al

units

1

default_value

2.0e-02

name

rho_lw

description

specific mass of liquid water

units

kg m-3

default_value

1.0e+03

name

S_top

description

soil depth over which to apply topmodel

units

m

default_value

3.0e+00

States

name

subsurface_store

units

m

SpaceDomain Properties

name

land_sea_mask

required

False

name

flow_direction

required

False

name

cell_area

required

False