Specifications

airGRteaching is an add-on package to the airGR package. It simplifies its use and was more specifically oriented towards teaching.
It provides access to the INRAE’s rainfall-runoff models (GR4H, GR5H, GR4J, GR5J, GR6J, GR2M, GR1A) and a snow melt and accumulation model (CemaNeige) with limited programming skills. This package also provides a graphical interface to help students exploring data and model results.
The airGRteaching package has been designed to fulfil a major requirement: facilitating the use of the airGR functionalities by students. The names of the functions and their arguments were chosen to this end.
The package is mostly based on three families of functions:

• the functions that allow to complete very simply a hydrological modelling exercise;
• plotting functions to help students to explore observed data and to interpret the results of calibration and simulation of the GR models;
• a function which runs a ‘Shiny’ graphical interface that allows for displaying in real-time model parameters impacts on hydrographs.

Screenshot of the airGRteaching interface (launched by the ShinyGR function).

Graphical user interface

You can freely test the online version of the interface on the sunshine platform.

Website

For more information and to getting started with the package, you can go on the airGRteaching website.

Citation

If you use airGRteaching, we ask you to use the following references to cite the package in your publications (you can obtain the references in R using the following command: citation(“airGRteaching”)) :

• Delaigue, O., Brigode, P., Thirel, G., and Coron, L. (2023). airGRteaching: an open-source tool for teaching hydrological modeling with R, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 27, 3293–3327, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-3293-2023.
• Delaigue, O., Coron, L., Brigode, P., and Thirel, G. (XXXX). airGRteaching: Teaching Hydrological Modelling with GR (Shiny Interface Included). R package version X.X.X.X. DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.airGRteaching.

Oral communication

The poster presenting airGRteaching shown at EGU 2018:

More oral communication materials are available on the ‘Publications’ page of the airGRteaching website.

Other tools

airGRgalaxy is a group of tools (R-packages [available on the CRAN] and graphical user interfaces [available on the sunshine platform]) built around the airGR package.