"This user manual (“the manual"") summarizes theoretical concepts of the BTOP model and the procedure to use it with necessary supplementary tools. The explanation of the procedure takes the Fujikawa River basin,Japan, as an example. The BTOP model is a distributed hydrological model developed to simulate the basin scale rainfall -runoff processes including snowmelt, overland flow, soil moisture in the root and unsaturated zones, subsurface flow, river flow routing, and dam operation. The supplementary tools allow the user to prepare input files for the BTOP model project setup and to visualize BTOP model results." |