Rainfall-Runoff Balance Enhanced Model Applied to Tropical Hydrology - Supplementary Document

This supplementary document describes the hydrological process and empirical equations considered by the Rainfall-Runoff Balance Enhanced Model (RUBEM) algorithm. Detailed description of the input dataset, and complementary information regarding input data and its pre-processing requirements are also presented.

RUBEM distributed hydrological model algorithm and its plug-in for QGIS, RUBEM Hydrological, are currently developed under General Public License version 3. The source code repository[1] [2] and related documentation[3] [4] for both are openly available to the public and are constantly updated. An automatic preprocessing input data application tool is under development. The repository and documentation website are constantly updated.

Chapter 2 present the model development and full equations used in the RUBEM. Chapter 3 presents the model application. Chapter 4 reference methods applied to model evaluation and the equations to compute the indicators. Chapter 5 presents the complementary results to the model application, and the last Chapter 6, has the tutorial on model installation into QGIS version 3.x (the LTR 3.16.x version was used in the installation and usage tutorials).

[1] Model repository is available at: https://github.com/LabSid-USP/RUBEM#readme.

[2] QGIS plug-in repository is available at: https://github.com/LabSid-USP/RUBEMHydrological#readme.

[3] Model documentation is available at: https://rubem.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.

[4] QGIS plug-in documentation is available at: https://rubem-hydrological.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.