Authors contributions:
Conceptualization: Emmanuel Dubois, Marie Larocque, Sylvain Gagné
Methodology: Emmanuel Dubois, Marie Larocque, Sylvain Gagné, Guillaume Meyzonnat
Sofware: Emmanuel Dubois, Sylvain Gagné, Guillaume Meyzonnat
Visualization, data curation, and formal analysis: Emmanuel Dubois
Writing (original draft and review & editing): Emmanuel Dubois and Marie Larocque
Funding acquisition and Supervision: Marie Larocque
The script was tested within the research team of Pr Larocque before making it publicly available.
For the application example of the Petite du Chene River, the climate data and river flow observations are provided for training purpose only and are not under the CC0 - "Public Domain Dedication" licence. Please refer to the access information section of the READ_ME.txt file or the TERMS tab for more detail. HydroBudget (HB) is a spatially distributed groundwater recharge (GWR) model that computes a superficial water budget on grid cells with outputs aggregated into monthly time steps. It was developed as an accessible and computationally affordable model to simulate GWR over large areas (thousands of km2, regional-scale watersheds) and for long time periods (decades), in cold and humid climates.
The model is coded in R and was developed at UQAM by the team of Pr Marie Larocque’s research Chair (Water and land conservation) as part of a project funded by the Quebec Ministry of the Environment (Ministère de l’Environnement et de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques - MELCC). Results of GWR simulation over southern Quebec (Canada) with HB are presented in Dubois et al. (2021).
Le model script is provided with an application example for the Petite du Chene River in southern Quebec and a User-guide.