Theoretical documentation of mHM and its modules
If I am not wrong, as of today, the mHM documentation page has ample content that would comprise say the "user manual" but lacks the "theoretical documentation". The only exception is an awesomely compiled chapter on mRM.
This lack of easy access of theory behind mHM has been commented by many external users. The current two options modellers have are 1) to dive in the source code to get the information, or 2) read Samaniego et al. 2010 WRR paper where equations have been layed out but might not be best source to get hold of theory behind mHM on first try.
Questions and comments:
- Would it make sense to compile chapters for different processes of mHM (snow, evaporation, etc.) like the one for mRM?
- Who should compile the chapters? Perhaps the authors who are still active with us are the best fitted for this?
- If this becomes a "multi-person" task, should there be a guideline/ general template that we follow, perhaps the mRM chapter. In my opinion this is important as the structure gives better readability? This is a reference theoretical documentation, which has this nice idea of tabulating the variables and parameters related to a process at end of each chapter.
I am pretty sure this will require some planning and time to complete. Just bringing up the topic so that we communicate on this matter.