WRF-Hydro Modeling System

The Weather Research and Forecasting Model Hydrological modeling system (WRF-Hydro) was developed as a community-based, open source, model coupling framework designed to link multi-scale process models of the atmosphere and terrestrial hydrology to provide:

  • An extensible multi-scale & multi-physics land-atmosphere modeling capability for conservative, coupled and uncoupled assimilation & prediction of major water cycle components such as: precipitation, soil moisture, snow pack, ground water, streamflow, and inundation.

  • Accurate and reliable streamflow prediction across scales (from 0-order headwater catchments to continental river basins and from minutes to seasons).

  • A research modeling testbed for evaluating and improving physical process and coupling representations

To Access Resource:

Questions? Email Resource Support Contact:

  • Molly McAllister
    mollymca@ucar.edu
    UCAR/NCAR - Research Applications Laboratory

Keywords

Resource Type software
Temporal Range Begin N/A
Temporal Range End N/A
Temporal Resolution Global
Bounding Box North Lat 90.00
Bounding Box South Lat -90.00
Bounding Box West Long -180.00
Bounding Box East Long 180.00
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

WRF-Hydro User Guide : technical description and user guide

WRF-Hydro Overview :

Additional Information N/A
Resource Format FORTRAN
Standardized Resource Format OTHER
Asset Size N/A
Legal Constraints

https://ral.ucar.edu/projects/wrf_hydro/terms-of-use
Access Constraints None.
Software Implementation Language FORTRAN

Resource Support Name Molly McAllister
Resource Support Email mollymca@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Research Applications Laboratory
Distributor N/A
Metadata Contact Name Molly McAllister
Metadata Contact Email mollymca@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization UCAR/NCAR - Research Applications Laboratory

Author
Publisher UCAR/NCAR - Research Application Laboratory
Publication Date 2013-08-08
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/d6j38rbj
Alternate Identifier WRF-Hydro
Resource Version 5.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress onGoing
Metadata Date 2021-01-26T14:34:29
Metadata Record Identifier 0a9a80e6-b69d-407a-97e9-30c47b6bded0
Metadata Language eng
Suggested Citation . (2013). WRF-Hydro Modeling System. 5.0. UCAR/NCAR - Research Application Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/d6j38rbj. Accessed 05 January 2026.

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