Xanthos – A Global Hydrologic Model

Journal Article · Mon Sep 11 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Journal of Open Research Software

DOI:https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.181· OSTI ID:1390431

Li, Xinya  ^[1]; Vernon, Chris R. ^[1]; Hejazi, Mohamad I. ^[2]; Link, Robert P. ^[2]; Feng, Leyang ^[2]; Liu, Yaling ^[2]; Rauchenstein, Lynn T. ^[1]

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1. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
2. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), College Park, MD (United States). Joint Global Change Research Institute

Xanthos is an open-source hydrologic model, written in Python, designed to quantify and analyse global water availability. Xanthos simulates historical and future global water availability on a monthly time step at a spatial resolution of 0.5 geographic degrees. Xanthos was designed to be extensible and used by scientists that study global water supply and work with the Global Change Assessment Model (GCAM). Xanthos uses a user-defined configuration file to specify model inputs, outputs and parameters. Xanthos has been tested using actual global data sets and the model is able to provide historical observations and future estimates of renewable freshwater resources in the form of total runoff.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• Grant/Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 1390431
• Report Number(s): PNNL-SA-126584; KP1703030
• Journal Information: Journal of Open Research Software, Vol. 5, Issue 1; ISSN 2049-9647
• Publisher: Software Sustainability Institute
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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