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https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1424
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1424
29 Jun 2023
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evalhyd v0.1.1: a polyglot tool for the evaluation of deterministic and probabilistic streamflow predictions

Thibault Hallouin, François Bourgin, Charles Perrin, Maria-Helena Ramos, and Vazken Andréassian

Abstract. The evaluation of streamflow predictions forms an essential part of most hydrological modelling studies published in the literature. The evaluation process typically involves the computation of some evaluation metrics, but it can also involve the pre-processing of the predictions and the post-processing of the computed metrics. In order for published hydrological studies to be reproducible, these steps need to be carefully documented by the authors. The availability of a single tool performing all of these tasks would simplify the documentation by the authors, but also the reproducibility by the readers. However, this requires for such a tool to be polyglot (i.e. usable in a variety of programming languages) and openly accessible, so that it can be used by everyone in the hydrological community. To this end, we developed a new tool named evalhyd that offers metrics and functionalities for the evaluation of deterministic and probabilistic streamflow predictions. It is open source and it can be used in Python, in R, in C++, or as a command line tool. This article describes the tool and illustrates its functionalities using Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) reforecasts over France as an example data set.

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evalhyd: a polyglot tool for the evaluation of deterministic and probabilistic streamflow predictions Thibault Hallouin, François Bourgin https://hal.science/hal-04088473

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The evaluation of the quality of hydrological model outputs against streamflow observations is widespread in the hydrological literature. In order to improve on the reproducibility of published studies, a new evaluation tool dedicated to hydrological applications is presented. It is open source and usable in a variety of programming languages to make it as accessible as possible in the community. Thus, authors and readers can use the same tool to produce and reproduce the results, respectively.