WRF-Hydro
A community modeling system and framework for hydrologic modeling and model coupling.
https://github.com/NCAR/wrf_hydro_nwm_public
Category: Hydrosphere
Sub Category: Freshwater and Hydrology
Keywords
earth-science fortran hydrologic-modeling hydrology modeling wrf-hydro
Keywords from Contributors
numerical-modelling climate nwp weather-model wrf weather energy-consumption energy-balance-model weather-forecast meteorology
Last synced: about 20 hours ago
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Repository metadata
WRF-Hydro model code
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/NCAR/wrf_hydro_nwm_public
- Owner: NCAR
- License: other
- Created: 2018-02-16T21:25:17.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-10-24T21:15:53.000Z (2 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-10-28T20:09:58.657Z (about 2 months ago)
- Topics: earth-science, fortran, hydrologic-modeling, hydrology, modeling, wrf-hydro
- Language: Fortran
- Homepage: https://ral.ucar.edu/projects/wrf_hydro
- Size: 29 MB
- Stars: 215
- Watchers: 22
- Forks: 149
- Open Issues: 124
- Releases: 11
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: NEWS.md
- Contributing: .github/CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE.txt
- Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- Citation: CITATION.cff
README.md
WRF-Hydro®
Description
This is the code repository for WRF-Hydro®.
WRF-Hydro is a community modeling system and framework for hydrologic modeling and model coupling. In 2016 a configuration of WRF-Hydro was implemented as the National Water Model (NWM) for the continental United States.
Documentation
Documentation is available at wrf-hydro.readthedocs.io with further guides available at our project website. For getting started see the dependencies and build instructions in the documentation.
Resources and Support
For news and updates regarding the WRF-Hydro project please subscribe to our email list.
For user support and general inquiries please use our contact form.
If you have found a bug or would like to propose changes to the model code please refer to our contributing guidelines.
Contributions
For more information on how to contribute to this project please refer to our contributing guidelines.
License
The license and terms of use for this software can be found here.
The Crocus snowpack module and related files are from the SURFEX surface model developed by Météo-France, the French national meteorological service.
These files are under the CeCILL-C license.
Acknowledgements
Funding support for the development and application of the WRF-Hydro system has been provided by:
- The National Science Foundation and the National Center for Atmospheric Research
- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Water Prediction (OWP)
- The U.S. National Weather Service (NWS)
- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
- The Colorado Water Conservation Board
- Baron Advanced Meteorological Services
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Citation (CITATION.cff)
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date-released: "2025-03-14"
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Owner metadata
- Name: NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Login: NCAR
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- Description: NSF NCAR is sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation and managed by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.
- Website: http://ncar.ucar.edu
- Location: Boulder, CO
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Committers metadata
Last synced: about 2 months ago
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Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.836
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Avg Commits per committer in past year: 8.25
Development Distribution Score (DDS) in past year: 0.5
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Issue and Pull Request metadata
Last synced: 2 months ago
Total issues: 269
Total pull requests: 605
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Average comments per pull request: 2.06
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