Model:OverlandFlow

OverlandFlow

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Also known as	Landlab OverlandFlow component
Model type	Single
Model part of larger framework	LandLab
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Spatial dimensions	2D
Spatial extent	Landscape-Scale, Reach-Scale, Watershed-Scale
Model domain	Terrestrial, Hydrology
One-line model description	Component simulating overland flow using a 2-D numerical approximation of the shallow-water equations following the de Almeida et al., 2012 algorithm for storage-cell inundation modeling.
Extended model description	The Landlab OverlandFlow component is based on a simplified inertial approximation of the shallow water equations, following the solution of de Almeida et al. (2012). This explicit two-dimensional hydrodynamic algorithm simulates a flood wave across a model domain, where water discharge and flow depth are calculated at all locations within a structured (raster) grid. This component generates a hydrograph at all grid locations, and allows for flow to move in one of the four cardinal directions (D4) into/out of a given model node.

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Name	Jordan Adams
Type of contact	Model developer
Institute / Organization	University of Colorado
Postal address 1
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Town / City	Boulder
Postal code	80301
State	Colorado
Country	United States
Email address	jordan.adams@colorado.edu
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Supported platforms	Unix, Linux, Mac OS, Windows
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Programming language	Python
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Code optimized	Single Processor
Multiple processors implemented
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Start year development	2012
Does model development still take place?	No
If above answer is no, provide end year model development
Code development status	Only maintenance
When did you indicate the 'code development status'?	2020
Model availability	As code, As teaching tool
Source code availability (Or provide future intension)	Through web repository
Source web address	https://github.com/landlab/landlab/tree/master/landlab/components/overland_flow
Source csdms web address
Program license type	BSD or MIT X11
Program license type other
Memory requirements	variable
Typical run time	variable

Describe input parameters	This component operates on a Landlab RasterModelGrid instance, and requires that the user has downloaded and installed Landlab. Parameters listed below are required. Ones noted as (optional) will revert to the prescribed default values as described in the documentation. Input parameters include: grid : A Landlab RasterModelGrid, representing the topography h_init : (optional) Thickness of initial thin layer of water on the surface alpha : (optional) Time step coeffcient, described in Bates et al., 2010 and de Almeida et al., 2012. mannings_n : (optional) Manning's roughness coefficient. g : (optional) Acceleration due to gravity (m/s^2). theta : (optional) Weighting factor from de Almeida et al., 2012. rainfall_intensity : (optional) Rainfall intensity.
Input format	ASCII
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Describe output parameters	The Landlab OverlandFlow component outputs data as Landlab fields - numpy arrays containing data with the associated CSDMS standard name, listed below: 'surface_water__depth' : NumPy array of length nnodes. Water depths at a given time step. 'surface_water__discharge' : NumPy array of length nlinks. Water discharge values at a given time step. 'water_surface__gradient' : NumPy array of length nlinks. Water surface gradient at a given time step.
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Pre-processing software needed?	No
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Post-processing software needed?	No
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Visualization software needed?	No
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Describe processes represented by the model	Routes a hydrograph (changing water discharges through time) across a gridded model terrain. At each location, water discharge is calculated at each time step as a function of surface roughness, local water depths and water surface slopes.
Describe key physical parameters and equations	The key algorithms and parameters are described in length the Geoscientific Model Development paper by Adams et al., (2017).
Describe length scale and resolution constraints	The model works best at watershed-scale domains, 100 km^2 and less have been tested. Of course, this is highly dependent on the grid resolution.
Describe time scale and resolution constraints	The model works best for event to decadal time scales on a personal machine.
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Describe available calibration data sets	The model is tested against the known analytical solution (see Adams et al., 2017 for more details). It is unit-tested against this analytical solution every time Landlab is updated.
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Is there a manual available?	Yes
Upload manual if available:	Media:OverlandFlow Users Manual.pdf
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OpenMI compliant	Yes
BMI compliant	Yes
WMT component	Yes
PyMT component	Yes
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Jordan Adams

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Nr. of publications:	1
Total citations:	55
h-index:	1
m-quotient:	0.1

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Nr. of publications:	1
Total citations:	55
h-index:	1
m-quotient:	0.1

Featured reference(s)	Open Access Status	Year	Type of Reference	Cited
Adams, Jordan M.; Gasparini, Nicole M.; Hobley, Daniel E. J.; Tucker, Gregory E.; Hutton, Eric W. H.; Nudurupati, Sai S.; Istanbulluoglu, Erkan; 2017. The Landlab v1.0 OverlandFlow component: a Python tool for computing shallow-water flow across watersheds. Geoscientific Model Development, 101645–1663. 10.5194/gmd-10-1645-2017	cc-by · publishedVersion	2017	a module overview describing a module	55

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