6.1 Prerequisites

Before delving into this section of the course material, you should have at least:

• RS Minerve installed How to install RS Minerve. This tutorial was written using RS Minerve 2.9.1.0.
• Read chapters 1 and 2 from the RS Minerve user manual (Foehn et al. 2020) (the manual can be downloaded from the CREALP website, see Section How to install RS Minerve).
  
• Familiarize yourself with RS Minerve by following Example 1 in the RS Minerve user manual.
  
• Read the HBV model description in the RS Minerve technical manual (Chapter 2.7) (Garcia Hernandez et al. 2020).

You may have to dig deeper into the user manual and the technical manual within the frame of the course but the above points are the minimum requirement to get started.
If you fulfill the prerequisites, you should be able to do the tutorial with the minimal description in the modeling section. However, detailed step-by-step descriptions are linked for each task.