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CSDMS maintains a code and metadata repository for numerical models and scientific software tools. The CSDMS Model Repository, initialized in 2009, now holds 404 open source models and tools. Use the dialog below to select your set of models.
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Program
Description
Domain
Developer
Python software framework for writing, assembling, and running 2D numerical models
Coastal, Hydrology, Marine, Terrestrial
Greg Tucker
parallel global-scale landscape evolution model
Climate, Hydrology, Marine, Terrestrial
Tristan Salles
Underworld2 is an open-source, particle-in-cell finite element code tuned for large-scale geodynamics simulations.
Geodynamic
Louis Moresi
Global Scalable Paleo Landscape Evolution
Climate, Geodynamic, Terrestrial
Tristan Salles
Depth-averaged fluid dynamics for modeling geophysical flows and wave propagation
Coastal, Terrestrial
Randall LeVeque
A model of dunes and snow-waves
Cryosphere, Hydrology, Terrestrial
Kelly Kochanski
A Python package for simulating passive particle transport in shallow-water flows
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Jayaram Hariharan
Alluvial morphodynamics of bedrock reaches
Hydrology
Sadegh Jafarinik
The Coupled Routing and Excess STorage (CREST) model is a distributed hydrologic model developed to simulate the spatial and temporal variation of atmospheric, land surface, and subsurface water fluxes and storages by cell-to-cell simulation.
Hydrology
Jiahu Wang
1D Breaching Turbidity current model for generating continuous turbidity currents
Coastal
Esther Eke
Geomorphic Model of Barrier, Estuarine, and Shoreface Translations + Marsh + Seagrass
Coastal
Ian Reeves
Read note in extended description. Coupled 1D bedrock-alluvial channel evolution
Terrestrial
Jon Pelletier
E-book: program for computing bedload transport in gravel rivers with a Manning-Strickler relation for flow resistance.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Gary Parker
The Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model (SLAMM)
Climate, Coastal, Geodynamic, Hydrology, Marine, Terrestrial
Jonathan Clough
The ChannelProfiler extracts and plots channel networks from a landlab grid.
Terrestrial
Katy Barnhart
Set of biogeochemical sub-models that predicts river export
Coastal, Terrestrial
Sybil Seitzinger
E-book: Calculator for statistical characteristics of grain size distributions.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Gary Parker
Create a 2D grid with randomly generated fractures.
Geodynamic, Terrestrial
Greg Tucker
Read note in extended description. 1D model of spiral troughs on Mars
Terrestrial
Jon Pelletier
Kinematic Wave process component for flow routing in a D8-based, spatial hydrologic model.
Hydrology
Scott Peckham
Calculate wave-generated bottom orbital velocities from surface wave parameters
Coastal, Marine
Patricia Wiberg
The module calculates crevasse splay morphology and water discharge outflow of a crevasse splay.
Terrestrial
Yunzhen Chen
Code for estimating long-term exhumation histories and spatial patterns of short-term erosion from the detrital thermochronometric data.
Terrestrial
Boris Avdeev
A Python package for multi-model analysis in long-term drainage basin evolution
Terrestrial
Katy Barnhart
2-D model tracking cosmogenic nuclides and mixing in landslide terrain
Terrestrial
Brian Yanites
Generate random sequence of precipitation events
Climate, Hydrology, Terrestrial
Jordan Adams
Bed-material sediment transport and storage dynamics on river networks.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Jonathan Czuba
SNOWPACK is a multi-purpose snow and land-surface model, which focuses on a detailed description of the mass and energy exchange between the snow, the atmosphere and optionally with the vegetation cover and the soil. It also includes a detailed treatment of mass and energy fluxes within these media.
Cryosphere
Mathias Bavay
Read note in extended description. 2D Gaussian fractional-noise generation with Fourier-filtering method
Terrestrial
Jon Pelletier
Matlab® code for paleo-hydrological flood flow reconstruction in a fluvial channel
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Marius Huber
SWAT is a river basin scale model developed to quantify the impact of land management practices in large, complex watersheds.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Jeff Arnold
E-book: Calculator for evolution of long profile of a river ending in a 1D migrating delta, using a backwater formulation.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Gary Parker
Tools for extracting hilltops and analysing hillslope morphology
Terrestrial
Martin Hurst
Geometric model to explore autogenic increase of vertical incision rate in entrenching alluvial rivers.
Terrestrial
Luca Malatesta
Caesar Lisflood is a morphodynamic / Landscape evolution model that simulates erosion and deposition in river catchments and reaches over time scales from hours to 1000's of years.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Tom Coulthard
Read note in extended description. Successive flow routing with Multiple Flow Direction (MFD) method
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Jon Pelletier
SIBERIA simulates the evolution of landscapes under the action of runoff and erosion over long times scales.
Terrestrial
Garry Willgoose
Mrip is a self-organization type model for the formation and dynamics of megaripples in the nearshore.
Coastal, Hydrology
Edith Gallagher
Simulates freshwater mussel populations' response to changes in suspended sediment
Ecosystems, Hydrology, Terrestrial
Jon Schwenk
Multidirectional flow routing using a novel method.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Daniel Hobley
A method to test for order in a vertical succession of strata
Coastal, Marine, Terrestrial
Peter Burgess
A turbulent boundary layer model for the linearized shallow water equations
Coastal, Marine
Christopher Naimie
Simulates flow characteristics based on gradually varied flow equation
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Rudy Slingerland
E-book: A module that calculates the evolution of a gravel bed river under an imposed cycled hydrograph.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Gary Parker
SIGNUM (Simple Integrated Geomorphological Numerical Model) is a MAtlab TIN-based landscape evolution model
Terrestrial
Domenico Capolongo
AeoLiS is a process-based model for simulating aeolian sediment transport in situations where supply-limiting factors are important, like in coastal environments.
Terrestrial
Bas Hoonhout
Component to accumulate flow and calculate drainage area.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Katy Barnhart
Software for estimating constituent loads in streams and rivers
Coastal, Hydrology, Terrestrial
Rob Runkel
Generates planforms for single-thread channel using a second-order autoregressive model
Hydrology, Planetary landforms, Terrestrial
Ajay Limaye
E-book: calculator for evolution of profiles of fans in subsiding basins
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Gary Parker
Computation of spherical harmonics, Slepian functions, and transforms
Marine, Terrestrial
Frederik Simons
Landlab component for 2-D calculation of fluvial sediment transport and bedrock erosion
Terrestrial
Charles Shobe
Infiltration process component (Green-Ampt method) for a D8-based, spatial hydrologic model
Hydrology
Scott Peckham
Data component provides monthly mean temperature for Permafrost Region 1902-2100
Climate, Cryosphere
Irina Overeem
ANUGA is a hydrodynamic modelling tool that allows users to model realistic flow problems in complex 2D geometries.
Hydrology
Nariman Habili
A numerical method to analyse a vertical succession of strata and identify the most cyclical arrangement of constituent facies
Coastal, Marine, Terrestrial
Peter Burgess
Distributed Routing Rainfall-Runoff Model--version II
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Geological Survey U.S.