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HydroGIS 96: Application of Geographic Information Systems in Hydrology and Water Resources Management (Proceedings of the Vienna Conference, April 1996). IAHS Publ. no. 235,1996 . 3 An adaptive GIS toolbox for hydrological modelling O. BATELAAN, ZHONG-MIN WANG F. DE SMEDT Laboratory of Hydrology, Free University Brussels, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium Abstract An adaptive GIS toolbox for hydrological modelling (WET- SPA) is under development. The toolbox can be used for modelling elements of the hydrological cycle, including the évapotranspiration process, runoff generation, flow in unsaturated and saturated zones, by considering water and energy transfers. The toolbox supports different temporal and spatial scales. Dependent on these scales, the tools are numerical and/or parameterized distributed models, which are automati- cally adapted to the available input information. In this way, the toolbox meets various demands in hydrological practice. All the tools run under UNIX and most are programmed in an object-oriented fashion (C++) , such that reusability and portability to other GIS packages is increased. Presently, GRASS is used to manipulate and present graphically spatial and temporal hydrological and geographical data. INTRODUCTION Reviewing the HydroGIS93 proceedings (Kovar Nachtnebel, 1993), it appears that the main contribution of GIS to distributed hydrological modelling lies in the use of its graphical and spatial analysis capabilities in existing hydrological models. Many models were interfaced to a GIS to