Offline Training

Tutorials

Our offline tutorial can be found here:

https://github.com/iiasa/CWatM/tree/develop/Tutorials/General

They come with a description and some exercises with settingsfiles

Please have a look at the pdf

Tutorial 1 starts with the structure of CWatM and how to turn it on

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Tutorial 2 shows the example of the Zambezi River Basin - What are the uncertainties?

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Tutorial 3 From here on you start to run CWatM by yourself

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Tutorial 10 shows how to model lakes and reservoirs

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Danube specific tutorials

For the Danube we have a own tutorial. It is produced in the framework of the Interreg Danube project: Danube Water Balance 2024-2026.

https://github.com/iiasa/CWatM/tree/develop/Tutorials/Danube

They come with a description and some exercises with settingsfiles

  • Exercise0 installing: Installing Python and CWatM

  • Exercise1 settings: Working with the CWatM settingsfile.ini

  • Exercise2 mannings: Change something and see the effect (here the routing parameter)

  • Exercise3 calibration: How to calibrate the model?

  • Exercise4 rivernetwork: How to change the river network?

  • Exercise5 crops: CWatM can have different crops. How to work with them?

  • Exercise6 watercycle: Postprocessing - How to make watercycle plots?

  • Exercise7 options: CWatM has a lot of options - How to select which one?

  • Exercise8 meteo: How to work with netcdf files and how to change the input data?

  • Exercise10 output: CWatM has >500 variables, You dont want to output all of them, but maybe some?

  • Exercise11 model structure: Inside CWatM - explains the source code structure

  • Exercise12 reservoirs: How to change the behaviour of reservoirs?

  • Exercise13 GitHub: Why using GitHub?

This is the starting point:

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And this is for example Exercise8

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