Cache Creek Watershed
The Cache Creek Watershed (CCW) is a headwater catchment with area

According to NLDAS-2, between 2000 and 2017 the mean temperature and precipitation was

SHUD simulation and calibration
Our simulation in CCW covers the period from 2000 to 2007. Because of the Mediterranean climate in this region, the simulation starts in summer to ensure adequate time before the October start to the water year. In our experiment, the first year (2000-06-01 to 2001-06-30) is the spin-up period, the following two years (2001-07-01 to 2003-06-30 ) are the calibration period, and the period from 2003-07-01 to 2007-07-01 is for validation.
The unstructured domain of the CCW (Fig. 1(d)) is built with rSHUD, a R package on GitHub (rSHUD). The number of triangular cells is 1147, with a mean area of
Results
Figure below reveals the comparison of simulated discharge against the observed discharge at the gage station of USGS 11451100. The calibration procedure exploits the Covariance Matrix Adaptation – Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES) to calibrate automatically \citep{Hansen2016}. The calibration program assigns 72 children in each generation and keeps the best child as the seed for next-generation, with limited perturbations. The perturbation for the next generation is generated from the covariance matrix of the previous generation. After 23 generations, the calibration tool identifies a locally optimal parameter set.

We use the groundwater distribution (Fig. below) to demonstrate the spatial distribution of hydroligcal metrics calculated from the SHUD model.
Figure below illustrates the annual mean groundwater table in the validation period. Because the model fixes a


