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This web site is devoted to the development and documentation of DHSVM, the Distributed Hydrology Soil Vegetation Model. Originally developed in the early 1990s by Mark Wigmosta while at the University of Washington, the model code has been further developed by a wide cast of characters at the University of Washington and at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
DHSVM is a distributed hydrologic model that explicitly represents the effects of topography and vegetation on water fluxes through the landscape. It is typically applied at high spatial resolutions on the order of 100 m for watersheds of up to 104 km2 and at sub-daily timescales for multi-year simulations. It has been applied predominantly to mountainous watersheds in the Pacific Northwest in the United States.
DHSVM is a research model and as such is continuously under
development. Only very limited efforts have been paid to make a
user-friendly interface. Its source code is available to interested
parties (see under code), but be advised that no technical support is
available other than these web pages, unless specific arrangements have
been made.