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[edit] Model Animations

Model animations illustrate earth surface processes. The animations are split into several categories to keep the information more searchable, naturally some movies span two different domains.
The categorie 'Environmental Conditions' deals with climate and oceanographic conditions, which are generally input to earth surface processes. The subsequent domains are split in: Terrestrial, Coastal, and Marine Processes.

Every animation has an associated fact-sheet with a short description of the animation.



[edit] Modeling Labs

CSDMS shares model executables and notes for exercises with students as integrated packages.

  • I. Overeem, 09/08: "Geological Modeling Lab on Coastal Stratigraphy".
    The excercise is part of a course on Geological Modeling, intended for graduate level teaching. The zipped file contains an executable of a teaching model, BarSim, developed originally by Joep Storms. The archive contains notes for a 3-hour computer lab as well as the background literature. Feel free to download the material for use in your own courses and please provide feedback or expand the material! The excercise allows graduate students hands-on experience with a simple stratigraphic model to get insight in setting up stratigraphic simulation experiments. Focus is on exploration of the effects of external forcing factors, i.e. sediment supply and sea-level, on wave-dominated coasts and barrier islands.
    zip archive with model and notes


[edit] Modeling Lectures

  • I. Overeem, 09/08: "Geological Modeling".
    These presentations are part of a course on Geological Modeling over medium to long time-scales, intended for graduate level teaching. Feel free to download the material for use in your own courses, but please acknowledge the authors. This course consists of 7 presentations that are titled:
  • 1. Geological modeling introduction PPT or PDF
  • 2. Modeling Long-term Basin-fill PPT or PDF
  • 3. Climate-Hydrological modeling of Sediment Supply PPT or PDF
  • 4. Deterministic and Stochastic Modeling PPT or PDF
  • 5. River and Plume deposition and Ocean Reworking PPT or PDF
  • 6. Marine Modeling Case-Study PPT or PDF
  • 7. Uncertainty in Geologic Models PPT or PDF
  • J. Syvitski, 08/09: "Earth-Surface Dynamics Modeling".
    These presentations are part of a course on Earth-surface Dynamics Modeling & Model Coupling, intended for graduate level courses on Earth Surface Processes. Feel free to download the material for use in your own courses, but please acknowledge the authors.This course consists of 7 presentations that are titled:
  • 1. Process-response modeling principals PPT or PDF
  • 2. Modeling Discharge and Sediment Flux PPT or PDF
  • 3. Landscape Evolution Modeling PPT or PDF
  • 4. Coastal Morphodynamics PPT or PDF
  • 5. Marine (Shelf) Morphodynamics PPT or PDF
  • 6. Density Currents, Sediment Failure & Gravity Flows PPT or PDF
  • 7. Source to Sink Numerical Modeling Approaches PPT or PDF



[edit] Modeling Textbooks

CSDMS works with modelers in the community who have published textbooks on modeling. We keep the associated code in the model repository so that it is easy to get for faculty and students alike.

Quantitative Modeling of Earth Surface Processes, 2008, Jon D. Pelletier, University of Arizona, Cambridge Publishers.

The publisher claims: "This textbook describes some of the most effective and straightforward quantitative techniques for modeling Earth surface processes. By emphasizing a core set of equations and solution techniques, the book presents state-of-the-art models currently employed in Earth surface process research, as well as a set of simple but practical research tools. Detailed case studies demonstrate application of the methods to a wide variety of processes including hillslope, fluvial, aeolian, glacial, tectonic, and climatic systems. "

Simulating Clastic Sedimentary Basins/Physical Fundamentals and Computing Procedures, 1994, Slingerland, R.L., K. Furlong and J. Harbaugh, Prentice Hall, Englewood Clifss, NJ:219 pp.

This textbooks describes basic fundamental processes and shows how to simplify these processes into quantitative models. Processes reach over a range of scales and time domains; i.e. landscape evolution to bedload transport. FORTRAN routines accompany an overview of earth surface processes

We are presently working to make all routines avaialable of Gary Parker's ebook as well (November 2009). link to Parker'sEbook

1D SEDIMENT TRANSPORT MORPHODYNAMICS with applications to RIVERS AND TURBIDITY CURRENTS, 2007, G. Parker, E-book


[edit] Submit Teaching Material

CSDMS welcomes submissions of teaching material, whether it be your coolest model animations, or material that you developed for undergraduate and graduate courses in earth surface processes. If you have images or animations they can be easily added to the respective wiki pages. For more comprehensive material, or material that needs some modifications to be served here, please contact CSDMS' Education and Knowledge Transfer Specialist. irina.overeem@colorado.edu

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