Model:RAFEM

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RAFEM


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Also known as RAFEM
Model type Single
Model part of larger framework
Note on status model
Date note status model
Incorporated models or components:
Spatial dimensions 2D
Spatial extent Continental, Regional-Scale
Model domain Terrestrial
One-line model description River Avulsion and Floodplain Evolution Module
Extended model description Morphodynamic river avulsion model, designed to be coupled with CEM and SEDFLUX3D
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Name Katherine Ratliff
Type of contact Model developer
Institute / Organization Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA)
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Town / City Research Triangle Park
Postal code 27707
State North Carolina
Country United States
Email address ratliff.katherine@epa.gov
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Unix, Linux, Mac OS
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Python

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Multiple processors implemented
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Start year development 2014
Does model development still take place? Yes
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Code development status Active
When did you indicate the 'code development status'? 2020
Model availability
Source code availability
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Through web repository
Source web address https://github.com/katmratliff/avulsion-bmi
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Program license type BSD or MIT X11
Program license type other
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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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OpenMI compliant No but possible
BMI compliant Yes
WMT component No but possible
PyMT component Yes
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Model info
Nr. of publications: 1
Total citations: 26
h-index: 1
m-quotient: 0.14

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Introduction

The River Avulsion and Floodplain Evolution Model (RAFEM) is a cellular model that simulates river and floodplain morphodynamics over large space and timescales. Cell size is larger than the channel belt width, and natural levees, which maintain a bankfull elevation above the channel bed, exist within a river cell. The river course is determined using a steepest-descent methodology, and erosion and deposition along the river profile are modeled as a linear diffusive process. An avulsion occurs when the riverbed becomes super-elevated relative to the surrounding floodplain, but only if the new steepest-descent path to sea level is shorter than the prior river course. If the new path to sea level is not shorter, then a crevasse splay is deposited in the adjacent river cells. The model has been designed to couple with the Coastline Evolution Model through the CSDMS Basic Model Interface.

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Nr. of publications: 1
Total citations: 26
h-index: 1
m-quotient: 0.14



Featured publication(s)YearModel describedType of ReferenceCitations
Ratliff, Katherine M.; Hutton, Eric H. W.; Murray, A. Brad; 2018. Exploring Wave and Sea‐Level Rise Effects on Delta Morphodynamics With a Coupled River‐Ocean Model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 123, 2887–2900. 10.1029/2018JF004757
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2018 RAFEM
Model overview 26
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