MOSAICO, a library for raster based hydrological applications

This paper presents MOSAICO, a set of Fortran 90 Modules for facilitating development of raster based hydrological applications and stimulating adoption of netCDF as a common format for sharing and comparing data among hydrological community. MOSAICO include routines for high level operations for input output and manipulation of gridded dataset. A test program is presented in order to show basic MOSAICO capabilities.

► Heterogeneity of file formats in hydrological modeling is obstacle to data sharing and comparison.
► NetCDF is a self describing and portable format for array-oriented data.
► MOSAICO library was developed on top of netCDF.
► MOSAICO implements high-level operations for input, output, and manipulation of gridded dataset.
► MOSAICO can be effectively adopted for development of raster based hydrological models.