Abstract

Hydrological models are essential in water resources management, but the expertise required to operate them often exceeds that of potential stakeholders. We present an approach that facilitates the dissemination of hydrological models, and its implementation in the Model INTegration (MINT) framework. Our approach follows principles from software engineering to create software components that reveal only selected functionality of models which is of interest to users while abstracting from implementation complexity, and to generate metadata for the model components. This methodology makes the models more findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable in support of FAIR principles. We showcase our methodology and its implementation in MINT using two case studies. We illustrate how the models SWAT and MODFLOW are turned into software components by hydrology experts, and how users without …

Metadata

publication

Environmental Modelling & Software 164, 105695, 2023

year

2023

publication date

2023/6/1

authors

Timo Schaffhauser, Daniel Garijo, Maximiliano Osorio, Daniel Bittner, Suzanne Pierce, Hernán Vargas, Markus Disse, Yolanda Gil

link

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364815223000816

resource_link

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/am/pii/S1364815223000816

journal

Environmental Modelling & Software

volume

164

pages

105695

publisher

Elsevier