2.1 Recent enhancements and applications of the WRF-Hydro Modeling system

Gochis, David, National Center for Atmospheric Research

The WRF-Hydro modeling system is designed to provide a set of hydrologic process enhancements that are couple-able to the WRF atmospheric modeling system.  These enhancements include multi-scale grid refinement capabilities, spatially-explicit hillslope routing and inundation representations, shallow groundwater representations as well as a selection of stream channel and reservoir process formulations.  The WRF-Hydro modeling components may be run fully
coupled to the WRF model permitting two-way flux exchange interactions
or in an offline, uncoupled mode where meteorological forcing data are
prescribed to the WRF-Hydro system.  This talk will provide a very
brief update on the status of the WRF-Hydro system and show example
results from a selected set of recent applications.