# Installation and Setup¶

All code is in python3, though the dependencies (because of their need for GIS libraries) can be tricky to get right. It is recommended to use Anaconda3 as a package manager, generating a unique environment for use with this package, as this makes it fairly easy to get all the required packages.

Note that this package is not currently installed in a typical pythononic way (i.e. setuptools), but instead expects you to simply use it in place. This will change at some point. In the meantime, to install this package, simply place it and its third party libraries (TPLs) in your python path:

cd /path/to/repository
export PYTHONPATH=pwd:pwd/workflow_tpls:${PYTHONPATH}  ## Dependencies¶ Standard packages needed include argparse and subprocess, and for testing, pytest and dist_utils. Standard math packages include numpy, matplotlib, and scipy. Soil properties often come in geodatabase files, which are best read with pandas and geopandas. GIS work is typically done using expensive/closed source and GUI-based tools. For this work, we instead build on the extremely high-quality, open-source packages for GIS in python: fiona, rasterio, shapely and cartopy. Optional: Mesh generation of 2D, “map view” surface meshes uses the open source library Triangle, which can be wrapped for python using meshpy. This in turn depends upon boost python. Optionally, extrusion of this 2D mesh into a 3D mesh for use in integrated hydrologic models requires a 3D mesh library ~~ we tend to use ExodusII here (though it would be straightforward to extend this to other packages such as VTK). ExodusII, part of the SEACAS suite of tools, provides a python3 set of wrappers, but there is no current package, so this must be installed separately. See below. Exodus, in turn, needs netCDF4, which can be from conda. Optional: Finally, soil properties often come in percent silt/clay/sand, yet hydrologic properties such as porosity, permeability, and van Genuchten curves are the most frequently used in models. Rosetta3 is a tool providing pedotransfer functions to convert these properties into the needed model parameters. There is no current package available for this either, so it must be installed separately. See below. Optional: Here we use jupyter notebooks to provide examples and illustrate usage of the package. If you do not intend to use jupyter, it is not necessary, adds a lot of extra packages, and can safely be removed from the installation below. ## Installing ExodusII (optional)¶ Clone the package from source Unfortunately this package does not do regular releases except as part of the Trilinos project, and those releases are often somewhat old. So we must build from master; the python3 wrappers are fairly new. Edit the script at: workflow_tpls/configure-seacas.sh  defining your compilers (likely clang if Mac and gcc if Linux) and pointing to your SEACAS repo and Anaconda environment installation. Hopefully you are then able to add your installed SEACAS to your PYTHONPATH and import the python wrappers: export PYTHONPATH=${SEACAS_DIR}/lib
python -c 'import exodus3; print("SUCCESS")'


## Installing Rosetta (optional)¶

cd workflow_tpls
mkdir rosetta
cd rosetta
wget http://www.u.arizona.edu/~ygzhang/rosettav3/Rosetta-3.0beta-py3.tar.gz
tar xzf Rosetta-3.0beta-py3.tar.gz


This should be sufficient, check the installation:

python -c 'import rosetta.ANN_Module; print("SUCCESS")'


## Setup¶

Little is needed to set up the package, but likely you want to set a data directory for storing all downloaded files. Usually this is done via exporting the WATERSHED_WORKFLOW_DIR environment variable to your downloaded package directory, but it can also be placed arbitrarily in your filesystem.

Then, each time you use Watershed Workflow, you must do the following things (they may go in a bashrc or similar):

conda activate watershed_workflow
export SEACAS_DIR=/path/to/your/seacas  # optional!
export WATERSHED_WORKFLOW_DIRECTORY=/path/to/your/watershed_workflow
export PYTHONPATH=${WATERSHED_WORKFLOW_DIR}:${WATERSHED_WORKFLOW_DIR}/workflow_tpls:${SEACAS_DIR}/lib:${PYTHONPATH}


## Run the test suite (optional)¶

Given that you have activated your environment, set your PYTHONPATH, and successfully install the above, the following tests should all pass. They are not all fast – some download files and may be internet-connection-speed dependent. You may be happy enough just running the high-level tests:

pytest workflow/test/test_hilev.py


but you can also run the entire suite:

pytest workflow