hydromt_wflow.wflow.WflowModel.setup_glaciers

WflowModel.setup_glaciers(glaciers_fn='rgi', min_area=1)

This component generates maps of glacier areas, area fraction and volume fraction, as well as tables with temperature thresohld, melting factor and snow-to-ice convertion fraction.

The data is generated from features with min_area [km2] from a database with glacier geometry, IDs and metadata. Currently, “rgi” (Randolph Glacier Inventory) is the only supported glaciers_fn data source and we use a default minimum area of 1 km2.

Adds model layers:

• wflow_glacierareas map: glacier IDs [-]

• wflow_glacierfrac map: area fraction of glacier per cell [-]

• wflow_glacierstore map: storage (volume) of glacier per cell [mm]

• G_TT map: temperature threshold for glacier melt/buildup [°C]

• G_Cfmax map: glacier melting factor [mm/°C*day]

• G_SIfrac map: fraction of snowpack on top of glacier converted to ice, added to glacierstore [-]

Parameters

• glaciers_fn ({'rgi'}) –

  Name of data source for glaciers, see data/data_sources.yml.

  • Required variables: [‘simple_id’]

• min_area (float, optional) – Minimum glacier area threshold [km2], by default 0 (all included)