Articles | Volume 14, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-7047-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-7047-2021
Model description paper
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19 Nov 2021
Model description paper |  | 19 Nov 2021

SuperflexPy 1.3.0: an open-source Python framework for building, testing, and improving conceptual hydrological models

Marco Dal Molin, Dmitri Kavetski, and Fabrizio Fenicia

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This paper introduces SuperflexPy, an open-source Python framework for building flexible conceptual hydrological models. SuperflexPy is available as open-source code and can be used by the hydrological community to investigate improved process representations, for model comparison, and for operational work.
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