Rwrfhydro

[Dani]

Dear all,

I was wondering whether the Rwrfydro is still being updated? I tried using the package for visualizing my domain and channel network, however, there seem to be some error in the VisualizeDomain function. Particularly, I think with regards to using the google map as the basemap? It kept asking for an API key.

Here is the error I got when I tried running my script based on the rwrfhydro vignette.

Warning: bounding box given to google - spatial extent only approximate.
converting bounding box to center/zoom specification. (experimental)
Warning in download.file(url, destfile = tmp, quiet = !messaging, mode = "wb") :
  cannot open URL 'http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=41.470994,-73.743558&zoom=10&size=640x640&scale=2&maptype=hybrid&language=en-EN&sensor=false': HTTP status was '403 Forbidden'
Error in download.file(url, destfile = tmp, quiet = !messaging, mode = "wb") :
  cannot open URL 'http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=41.470994,-73.743558&zoom=10&size=640x640&scale=2&maptype=hybrid&language=en-EN&sensor=false'

Thank you!

[Molly]

Hi Dani,

As stated on the web page https://ral.ucar.edu/projects/wrf_hydro/rwrfhydro "Rwrfhydro is currently minimally supported and rarely updated."

We are currently only minimally supporting 3 vignettes which can be found at the bottom of the web page https://ral.ucar.edu/projects/wrf_hydro/rwrfhydro. You will need to edit them to meet the needs of your research project.

• Plot and evaluate simulated WRF-Hydro streamflow using USGS observations
• Precipitation Evaluation
• Spatial tools

Which vignette did you use?  Maybe other users have tried to use it with success?

Cheers,

Molly

[Dani]

Hi Molly,

I see. Thank you for the added information! I did use a rather old vignette for my script, the WRF Hydro Domain and Channel Visualization vignette from this link:

https://ral.ucar.edu/sites/default/files/public/projects/wrf_hydro/v3_0/rwrfhydro/vignettes/domainChannelVis.html.

I believe it was used for WRF-Hydro V3.0 as apparent on the date it was published last 05 May 2015 by James McCreight. I figured this script would've worked for the V5 since it's just the inputs.

Many thanks,

Dani