WDPM: the Wetland DEM Ponding Model

https://doi.org/10.21105/JOSS.02276

Shook, K., Spiteri, R J., Pomeroy, J.W., Liu, T. and Sharomi, O. (2021) WDPM: the Wetland DEM Ponding Model, Journal of Open Source Software, 6(64), 2276, https://doi.org/10.21105/JOSS.02276

The hydrography of the Canadian Prairies and adjacent northern US Great Plains is unusual
in that the landscape is flat and recently formed due to the effects of pleistocene glaciation
and a semi-arid climate since holocene deglaciation. Therefore, there has not been sufficient
energy, time, or runoff water to carve typical dendritic surface water drainage networks in many
locations. In these regions, runoff is often detented and sometimes stored by the millions of
depressions (known locally as “potholes” or “sloughs”) that cover the landscape.