HydPy-Snow

The HydPy-Snow model family aims to calculate snow-related processes. It is still in its early stages and currently only provides CemaNeige models. These must be applied in a stand-alone manner, and their output can be passed (a little inconveniently via nodes) to hydrological models that lack a built-in snow module (those of the HydPy-G model family). We plan to turn the existing members of HydPy-Snow into “real” submodels in HydPy 7 and also extract the existing snow modules of other main models (HydPy-H, HydPy-L, and HydPy-WHMod) into HydPy-Snow. If everything works well, HydPy 7 will provide the same flexibility regarding combining main models with snow submodels as HydPy 6 does for combining main models with evapotranspiration submodels.

Base model:

• snow » HydPy-Snow (base model)

Application models:

• snow_cn » HydPy-Snow-CemaNeige-T-Mean (CemaNeige model with mean air temperature as input)
• snow_cn_minmax » HydPy-Snow-CemaNeige-T-MinMax (CemaNeige model with additional minimum and maximum air temperature as input)