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Revision as of 13:49, 2 April 2020
Stand alone module
The Basic Model Interface (BMI) is a set of standard control and query functions that, when added to a model code, make that model both easier to learn and easier to couple with other software elements. This lab illustrates how to run a model through its BMI.
1.0 hrs
Model used:
Heat
Stand alone module
The notebook-based lab uses a simple numerical model to explore how hydraulic conductivity and recharge influence the depth of an unconfined aquifer and the shape of its water table.
1.0 hrs
Model used:
(self-contained)
Stand alone module
Investigate river sediment supply of the monsoon-driven Ganges River. Explore the effects of future climate changes. Validate a model against observations and discuss uncertainty.
1.0 hrs
Model used:
HydroTrend
Stand alone module
Visualize and experiment with the growth of a valley glacier using a simple 1D numerical model.
1.0 hrs
Model used:
(self-contained)
Stand alone module
Explore how temperature varies within a soil over the course of a day or year, as heat gets conducted upward and downward in the profile.
1.0 hrs
Model used:
(self-contained)
Stand alone module
Meanderpy uses a simple linear relationship between the nominal migration rate and curvature, as recent work using time-lapse satellite imagery suggests that high curvatures result in high migration rates.
2.0 hrs
Model used:
Meanderpy
Stand alone module
Explore coastal processes by 1) a spreadsheet lab or 2) an advanced modeling lab using the CEM model. We look at the effects of waves and river avulsion on a coastline.
1.5 hrs
Model used:
CEM
Stand alone module
The Python Modeling Toolkit (pymt) provides the tools needed for coupling models that expose a Basic Model Interface (BMI). This lab illustrates how to use pymt to run and couple models.
2.0 hrs
Model used:
CEM
Stand alone module
Investigate river sediment supply to the ocean by exploring the effects of climate changes on river fluxes. Also look at the effect of humans on rivers: the building of a reservoir.
2.0 hrs
Model used:
HydroTrend
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Landlab is an open-source Python-language package for numerical modeling of Earth surface dynamics. This lab illustrates how to use different Landlab components for modeling.
1.0 hrs
Model used:
Landlab
Stand alone module
Learn about river stage and discharge, using gage height data downloaded from the USGS for the upper Colorado River. Use standard Python libraries to read, analyze, and visualize data.
3.0 hrs
Model used:
n/a
Stand alone module
This lab introduces how to use Ku model for permafrost modeling and how Ku can be used alongside landscape geomorphology models.
1.5 hrs
Model used:
Kudryavtsev Model
Stand alone module
This notebook illustrates the evolution of detachment-limited channels in an actively uplifting landscape.
2.0 hrs
Model used:
Landlab
Stand alone module
A CSDMS data component used to download the soil property datasets from the SoilGrids system.
1.0 hrs
Model used:
SoilGrids Data Component
Stand alone module
Analyze month long deployment of velocity data from tilt current meters deployed in inlet stream in Maine
2.0 hrs
Model used:
n/a
Stand alone module
This lab uses the mesh generator dmsh and the mesh generator from the Anuga model to create unstructured grids that can be passed into Landlab.
1.0 hrs
Model used:
Landlab
Stand alone module
This notebook illustrates how storm sequences interact with watershed properties to control infiltration and runoff. It explores the relationships between rainfall intensity, water stage height, and infiltration through the integration of multiple Landlab components.
3.0 hrs
Model used:
Landlab
Stand alone module
Learn about the nature of impact craters and how we simulate their shape and distribution on a planetary surface. Then, investigate the results of different kinds of erosion on a cratered landscape, using Landlab.
1.5 hrs
Model used:
Landlab
Stand alone module
Learn how to access data and metadata from a GeoTIFF file through an API or a BMI with the CSDMS GeoTiff data component.
1.0 hrs
Model used:
GeoTiff Data Component
Stand alone module
Learn how to download and access land elevation data from OpenTopography with the CSDMS Topography data component.
1.0 hrs
Model used:
Topography Data Component
Stand alone module
Explore the effect of stochastic wildfires on riverine sediment flux. We use the SPACE model to simulate fluvial processes and introduce a stochastic wildfire model. Students can experiment by changing the rate of fires and other parameters.
1.0 hrs
Model used:
SPACE
Stand alone module
Visualize the evolution of any sandy beach in the world through time. learn how to extract complex datasets, run a geomorphic model, and explore the impact of different wave climates on a beach you care about.
1.0 hrs
Model used:
CEM
Stand alone module
1) Demonstrate a potential to couple NST with existing landlab models that generate sediment sources or other sediment input condition; 2) Run the NetworkSedimentTransporter with pulses of sediment to understand the impact of landscape disturbance on sediment yield
1.5 hrs
Model used:
River Network Bed-Material Sediment
Stand alone module
Analyze flood frequency of different rivers in North Carolina using basic extreme analysis and python. Students will get practice using pandas dataframes for importing, analyzing, and visualzing data.
2.0 hrs
Model used:
n/a
Stand alone module
A CSDMS data component used to access the ECMWF Reanalysis v5 (ERA5) climate datasets.
1.0 hrs
Model used:
ERA5 Data Component
Stand alone module
A demonstration of how to use the Data Component to download wave properties datasets to calculate the wave power.
1.5 hrs
Model used:
WAVEWATCH III ^TM
Stand alone module
A CSDMS data component used to download the marine substrates datasets from the dbSEABED system.
1.0 hrs
Model used:
dbSEABED Data Component
Stand alone module
A demonstration of fetching elevation data with the Topography data component, reprojecting and tuning it with GRASS GIS, then loading it into a Landlab RasterModelGrid.
1.0 hrs
Model used:
GRASS GIS, Landlab, Topography Data Component
Stand alone module
A demonstration of how to use the Data Components, Landlab, and Pymt Model Components to simulate the permafrost active layer thickness and the hillslope diffusion process.
1.5 hrs
Model used:
Kudryavtsev Model
Stand alone module
A demonstration of how to use the Data Components and Landlab components for overland flow simulation.
1.5 hrs
Model used:
Landlab
Stand alone module
A demonstration of how to use the Data Components to download topography and soil datasets to calculate the landslide susceptibility.
1.5 hrs
Model used:
Landlab
Stand alone module
A CSDMS data component used to access the USGS National Water Information System (NWIS) data.
1.0 hrs
Model used:
NWIS Data Component
Module 1 of 4 of the series Permafrost.
What is permafrost and how do you make a first-order prediction about permafrost occurrence. This is lesson 1 in a mini-course on permafrost, this lab uses the Air Frost Number and annual temperature data to predict permafrost occurrence.
1.5 hrs
Model used:
Frost Model
Module 2 of 4 of the series Permafrost.
Explore what is active layer depth and the effects of snow and soil water content on permafrost. This is lesson 2 in a mini-course on permafrost. It employs a 1D configuration of the Kudryavtsev model.
1.5 hrs
Model used:
Kudryavtsev Model
Module 3 of 4 of the series Permafrost.
Using the Frost number code and grids of climate input data, one can make predictions of permafrost occurrence over the last century in Alaska. This is lesson 3 in a mini-course on permafrost.
2.0 hrs
Model used:
Frost Model
Module 4 of 4 of the series Permafrost.
Using the Frost number code and grids of climate model input data (CMIP5), allows you to map predictions of permafrost occurrence. This is lesson 4 in a mini-course on permafrost.
1.5 hrs
Model used:
Frost Model
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Get Started with the Unix Shell
These lessons will show you how to navigate and manipulate files and the file system through the Unix Shell and the basics of cluster computing. These skills are fundamental for using the CSDMS HPCC. Shell Tutorial | |
Get Started with Python
These lessons cover the basics of using Python 2.7 for numerical modeling. Some previous experience in scientific programming is helpful but not necessary. Python Tutorial | |
Get Started with Version Control
These lessons teach you the basics of Version Control using git and Github. Version Control Tutorial | |
Hydrology and Energy Balance
Introduction to hydrological process modeling. Learn about incoming solar radiation and the effects of watershed latitude, and local slopes and aspects on the energy balance. Hydrology Modeling with WMT | |
Hydrology and Flow Routing
Learn about flow routing over a landscape and basic algorithms for numerical modeling of combined hillslope and river sediment transport processes. WMT Modeling Exercise on flow routing
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Stream Response to Rain
Introduction to hydrological process modeling. Learn about stream responses to different rainfall events. Explore hydrographs. Modeling Stream Response to Rainfall | |
Spreadsheets on Hydrological Processes
These spreadsheet exercises for undergraduate students explore the main components of the water balance: precipitation, evaporation and infiltration.
Exercise on Evaporation | |
Barrier Island and Salt Marsh Dynamics
Look at model simulations to explore the effects of sea level rise, river water and sediment influx and storm activity on coastal dynamics. With lesson plan and activities for high school students and first year undergraduate students.
Start the activity | |
ROMS-Lite Modeling: learning about grids
A basic configuration of the Regional Ocean Modeling System is designed for inexperienced modelers to look at a river plume affecting the coastal ocean and sediment transport. Learn about ROMS in WMT | |
ROMS-Lite Modeling: settling rates and shear stress
A basic configuration of the Regional Ocean Modeling System is designed for inexperienced modelers to look at sediment settle rates and shear stress in the coastal ocean. Learn about ROMS in WMT | |
ROMS-Lite Modeling: wave forcing
A basic configuration of the Regional Ocean Modeling System with special focus on the effect of waves on bed stresses and sediment transport in the coastal ocean. Learn about waves with ROMS | |
ROMS-Lite Modeling: river forcing
A basic configuration of the Regional Ocean Modeling System with special focus on the effect of varying river inflow in the coastal ocean. Learn about flood discharge and ocean conditions with ROMS | |
Modeling River Plumes
Riverwater and its suspended sediments will form a hypopycnal sediment plume. We will use a component called PLUME to investigate the behavior of these sediment plumes. Plume Modeling with WMT | |
Sinking Deltas
Deltas experience rapid sea level rise. These spreadsheet exercises explore thermal expansion, global sea-level rise and local relative sea-level rise and its causes in selected major deltas. For undergraduate level classes. Notes for students and instructors and spreadsheet exercise | |
Stratigraphic Modeling with Sedflux2D
SedFlux builds stratigraphy by combining fluvial processes, plume dynamics, ocean waves and many more. This lab teaches you about Sedflux 2d and gets you started building 2D profile simulations of sea level change. Stratigraphy Modeling in 2Dwith WMT | |
Stratigraphic Modeling with Sedflux3D
SedFlux builds stratigraphy by combining fluvial processes, plume dynamics,avulsion, compaction and many more. This lab teaches you about Sedflux 3d and gets you started with sea level change and avulsions. Stratigraphy Modeling in 3D with WMT | |
Landscape Evolution Experiments
WILSIM is a Web-based Interactive Landform Simulation Model. Look at the effects of landscape geometry, climate and tectonics and see how the Grand Canyon forms over time. WILSIM runs through your browser here | |
Coastal Engineering Experiments
Explore waves, surge, tides and sediment transport with hands-on exercises and simple model visualizations.
Find them here Coastal Processes Toolbox of Tony Dalrymple | |
Hydraulics and Sediment Transport Calculations
Explore hydraulics, pipe flow and sediment transport with hands-on calculation and simple model visualizations.
Find them here VLab of Victor Miguel Ponce | |
Landscape Evolution Modeling with CHILD, Part 1
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Landscape Evolution Modeling with CHILD, Part 2
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Landscape Evolution Modeling with CHILD, Part 3
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River Dynamics and Vegetation labs for K6-12
Lectures show basics of river water and sediment transport, focused on a small river in the Arid West, the Rio Puerco. Associated hands-on labs look at the complex interactions of the biosphere and hydrosphere. Materials are posted here . | |
Agent-Based Models for Earth Surface Processes
Want to learn more about human dimensions? Check out the 'Swidden Agricultural Model', the 'Commons model' and the Wealth Distribution models as examples of ABM COMSES models are found here.' | |
Modeling Uncertainty in Earth Sciences
A set of 5 labs on different aspects of model uncertainty: basic statistics, decision making, variograms, and sensitivity testing. This is material designed by Jef Caers and accompagnies his textbook. | |
Earth Science Models for K6-12
The PhET project at CU Boulder has built numerous interactive simulations to which CSDMS scientists contribute. These are for K6-12 classrooms! PhET Earth Science simulations are found here. |
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