User guide

In this user guide, you will find detailed descriptions and examples that describe how to create, run, and analyse hydrological models with Rameau.

These notes take elements already described in Roche and Thiéry [1984], Thiéry [2014] and Thiéry [2018].

• Main principles
  • How the model works
  • How to build a model
  • How to use the model
• TOML configuration file
• Input data
  • Meteorological data
  • Other data
  • Missing data
  • Time step
  • Providing input data
  • Specifying file paths
• Building watersheds
  • Physical parameter
  • Linked parameters
  • Watershed settings
  • Watershed parameters
• Simulation
  • Simulation settings
• Parameter estimation
  • Bound-constrained optimisation
  • Regression
  • Optimisation settings
  • Watershed optimisation parameters
• Forecast
  • Forecast settings
  • Forecast correction parameters
  • A full example
• Outputs
  • Simulation run
  • Optimization run
  • Forecast run
  • Format of the output files