VIC-MF6 is a modeling framework for statewide, coupled surface–subsurface hydrologic simulation in New Mexico, integrating the VIC and MODFLOW 6 models. It couples a downscaled version of Yang et al. (2019) and a MODFLOW 6 converted version of the Rio Grande Transboundary Integrated Hydrologic Model (RGTIHM). This framework requires modifications to handling of geologic layers in MODFLOW 6. We used the VIC Classic to Image converter to convert the New Mexico VIC Class model to an Image model for time-over-space coupling.
This figure shows the flowchart of the VIC-MF6 coupling framework:
This figure shows how to optimize the coupled distributed model:
This project is funded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Resources Research Act 104(b) grant NM_2023_Cho through the New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute (NM WRRI) under award GR0007017, as part of USGS Grant/Cooperative Agreement No. G21AP10635, along with an additional internal award from the NM WRRI.