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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 389 open source models and tools. Use the dialog below to select your set of models.
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Program
Description
Domain
Developer
Monte Carlo chain of 1D non-linear diffusion hillslope model to find most likely boundary conditions
Terrestrial
Martin Hurst
1D probabilistic, particle-based model of hillslope evolution for studying hillslope equilibration and response to perturbations.
Coastal, Geodynamic, Terrestrial
Jacob Calvert
1D Breaching Turbidity current model for generating continuous turbidity currents
Coastal
Esther Eke
A finite element formulation of the non-conservative form of the vertically integrated advection/diffusion/reaction (ADR) equation
Marine
Wendy Gentleman
Read note in extended description. Advection Diffusion Implicit (ADI) method for solving 2D diffusion equation
Terrestrial
Jon Pelletier
E-book: program for computing bedload transport in
gravel rivers.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Gary Parker
E-book: program for computing bedload transport in gravel rivers over time.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Gary Parker
E-book: program for computing bedload transport in gravel rivers with a Manning-Strickler relation for flow resistance.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Gary Parker
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
E-book: Calculator for aggradation and degradation of a river reach using a backwater formulation.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Gary Parker
E-book: calculator for aggradation and degradation of sediment mixtures in gravel-bed streams
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Gary Parker
E-book: calculator for evolution of upward-concave bed profiles in rivers carrying sediment mixtures in subsiding basins.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Gary Parker
E-book: illustration of calculation of aggradation and degradation of a river reach using the normal flow approximation.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Gary Parker
E-book: Illustration of calculation of aggradation and degradation of a river reach using the normal flow approximation; with an extension for calculation of the response to a sudden fault along the reach.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Gary Parker
E-book: A module that calculates the evolution of a gravel bed river under an imposed cycled hydrograph.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Gary Parker
E-book: Program to calculate the evolution of upward-concave bed profiles in rivers carrying uniform sediment in subsiding basins.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Gary Parker
Rules-based model to generate a 2-dimensional cross section of alluvial stratigraphy based on fluvial processes
Coastal, Terrestrial
Andy Wickert
ANUGA is a hydrodynamic modelling tool that allows users to model realistic flow problems in complex 2D geometries.
Hydrology
Nariman Habili
Add-on package to ANUGA with modules for sediment transport and vegetation drag
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Mariela Perignon
Pixel scale Area-Slope equation calculator
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Sagy Cohen
Cellula automata model for salt marsh evolution with variable soil resistance under wind waves attack
Coastal
Nicoletta Leonardi
Computes evolution of a bedrock river longitudinal profile in the presence of large, hillslope-derived blocks.
Terrestrial
Charles Shobe
E-book: program for backwater calculations in open channel flow
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Gary Parker
E-book: calculator for backwater curves in sand-bed streams, including the effects of both skin friction and form drag due to skin friction
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Gary Parker
Coastal barrier island transgression model
Coastal
Jaap Nienhuis
A graphical Matlab interface to the C language 2-D quality finite element grid generator Triangle.
Coastal, Marine
Jonathan Shewchuk
Read note in extended description. Knickpoint propagation in the 2D sediment-flux-driven bedrock erosion model
Terrestrial
Jon Pelletier
This is a two-dimensional numerical model that computes the topographic evolution of the facet slope in the footwall of an active normal fault.
Geodynamic, Terrestrial
Greg Tucker
E-book: calculator for aggradation and degradation with a migrating bedrock-alluvial transition at the upstream end.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Gary Parker
BlockLab computes landscape evolution in the presence of large blocks of rock on hillslopes and in channels.
Terrestrial
Charles Shobe
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
The Second Generation Chesapeake Bay Operational Forecast System (CBOFS2): A ROMS‐Based Modeling System
Marine
Lyon Lanerolle
The CLUMondo model is a spatially explicit and dynamics land system change model
Terrestrial
Peter Verburg
Data component provides monthly mean temperature for Permafrost Region 1902-2100
Climate, Cryosphere
Irina Overeem
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
multi-physics numerical model that simulates rock deformation, fluid flow, solute transport and heat transfer in response to ice sheet loading of multiple cycles
Geodynamic, Hydrology
Yipeng Zhang
Multidimensional heat-transfer modeling system for permafrost with advanced unfrozen water physics
Cryosphere, Terrestrial
Gary Clow
Read note in extended description. Simulates Oscillations in arid alluvial channels
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Jon Pelletier
The ChannelProfiler extracts and plots channel networks from a landlab grid.
Terrestrial
Katy Barnhart
Tool for examining channel profiles in chi-elevation space using the integral method of channel analysis
Terrestrial
Simon Mudd
Numerical model to compute tsunami propagation and runup on land in the shallow-water approximation
Coastal, Marine
Elena Tolkova
2-D model tracking cosmogenic nuclides and mixing in landslide terrain
Terrestrial
Brian Yanites
Read note in extended description. Coupled 1D bedrock-alluvial channel evolution
Terrestrial
Jon Pelletier
The module calculates crevasse splay morphology and water discharge outflow of a crevasse splay.
Terrestrial
Yunzhen Chen
CryoGrid 3 is a simple land-surface scheme dedicated to modeling of ground temperatures in permafrost environments.
Cryosphere, Terrestrial
Sebastian Westermann
Simulates circulation and sedimentation in a 2D turbulent plane jet and resulting delta growth
Coastal
Rudy Slingerland
DHSVM is a distributed hydrologic model that explicitly represents the effects of topography and vegetation on water fluxes through the landscape.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Administrator DHSVM
Distributed Routing Rainfall-Runoff Model--version II
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Geological Survey U.S.
3-DIMENSIONAL DROGUE TRACKING ALGORITHM FOR A FINITE ELEMENT GRID WITH LINEAR FINITE ELEMENTS
Coastal, Marine
Brian Blanton
A Python API for the Dakota iterative systems analysis toolkit.
Climate, Coastal, Geodynamic, Hydrology, Marine, Terrestrial
Mark Piper
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
E-book: Calculator for evolution of long profile of a river ending in a 1D migrating delta, using the normal flow approximation.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Gary Parker
Delta-building model DeltaRCM expanded to include vegetation
Coastal
Rebecca Lauzon
Process-response model simulating the evolution and stratigraphy of fluvial dominated deltaic systems
Coastal
Bob Hoogendoorn
E-book: Illustration of calculation of depth-discharge relation, bed load transport, suspended load transport and total bed material load for a large, low-slope sand-bed river.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Gary Parker
Find depressions on a topographic surface.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Dan Hobley
This component implements a depth-dependent Taylor series diffusion rule, combining concepts of Ganti et al. (2012) and Johnstone and Hilley (2014).
Terrestrial
Rachel Glade
Code for estimating long-term exhumation histories and spatial patterns of short-term erosion from the detrital thermochronometric data.
Terrestrial
Boris Avdeev
Algorithm for extracting channel networks from high resolution topographic data
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Fiona Clubb
Component for calculating drainage density in Landlab given a channel network
Terrestrial
Charles Shobe
E-book: calculator for aggradation and degradation of sediment mixtures in gravel-bed streams subject to cyclic hydrographs.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Gary Parker
DynEarthSol3D is a finite element solver that models the momentum balance and the heat transfer of elasto-visco-plastic material in the Lagrangian form.
Geodynamic
Eh Tan
parallel global-scale landscape evolution model
Climate, Hydrology, Marine, Terrestrial
Tristan Salles
Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) is an ecological modeling software suite for personal computers
Ecosystems, Marine
Villy Christensen
Read note in extended description. Werner's model for eolian dune formation and evolution
Terrestrial
Jon Pelletier
Empirical Assessment Tool for Bathymetry, Flow Velocity and Salinity in Estuaries Based on Tidal Amplitude and Remotely-Sensed Imagery
Coastal, Hydrology, Marine
Jasper Leuven
Exponential soil production function in the style of Ahnert (1976)
Terrestrial
Rachel Glade
Simulates flow characteristics based on gradually varied flow equation
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Rudy Slingerland
Read note in extended description. Forward Time Centered Space (FTCS) method for 1D nonlinear diffusion equation
Terrestrial
Jon Pelletier
Read note in extended description. Forward Time Centered Space (FTCS) method for 2D diffusion equation
Terrestrial
Jon Pelletier
Read note in extended description. Forward Time Centered Space (FTCS) method for 2D Terrace diffusion
Terrestrial
Jon Pelletier
a 3-D diagnostic model for continental shelf circulation studies
Coastal, Marine
Christopher Naimie
Compute fluvial erosion using stream power theory (“fastscape” algorithm)
Terrestrial
Daniel Hobley
Read note in extended description. Filling in pits and flats in a DEM
Terrestrial
Jon Pelletier
A turbulence-resolving numerical model for fine sediment transport in bottom boundary layer
Marine, Terrestrial
Zhen Cheng
This component generates a random fire event or fire time series from the Weibull statistical distribution.
Climate, Ecosystems, Terrestrial
Jordan Adams
Read note in extended description. Fourier filtering in 1D while solving the flexure equation
Terrestrial
Jon Pelletier
Read note in extended description. Fourier filtering in 2D while solving the flexure equation
Terrestrial
Jon Pelletier
Read note in extended description. Solving the flexure equation applying Advection Diffusion Implicit (ADI) method
Terrestrial
Jon Pelletier
Component to accumulate flow and calculate drainage area.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Katy Barnhart
Single-path (steepest direction) flow direction with diagonals on rasters.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Katy Barnhart
Flow direction on a raster grid by the D infinity method.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Katy Barnhart
Multiple-path flow direction with or without out diagonals.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Katy Barnhart
Single-path (steepest direction) flow direction without diagonals.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Katy Barnhart
Read note in extended description. Numerical integration of Fourier-Bessel terms
Terrestrial
Jon Pelletier
Read note in extended description. 1D fractional-noise generation with Fourier-filtering method
Terrestrial
Jon Pelletier
Read note in extended description. 2D Gaussian fractional-noise generation with Fourier-filtering method
Terrestrial
Jon Pelletier
Create a 2D grid with randomly generated fractures.
Geodynamic, Terrestrial
Greg Tucker
Frost model predicts the likelihood of occurrence of permafrost in the land surface based on the monthly temperature distribution
Cryosphere, Terrestrial
Irina Overeem
Calculate floodwater depth based on an inundation polygon (e.g. from remote sensing) and a DEM
Coastal, Hydrology, Terrestrial
Sagy Cohen
Geomorphic model of barrier, estaurine, and shoreface translations plus dynamic marsh plus waves
Coastal
Rebecca Lauzon
Geomorphic Model of Barrier, Estuarine, and Shoreface Translations + Marsh + Seagrass
Coastal
Ian Reeves
2D cross-shore geomorphological model of barrier island and marsh response to sea level rise.
Coastal
David Walters
Distributed hydrological model, water and energy budgets
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Riccardo Rigon
GIPL(Geophysical Institute Permafrost Laboratory) is an implicit finite difference one-dimensional heat flow numerical model.
Cryosphere, Terrestrial
Elchin Jafarov
This python code can be used to find knickpoints and extract information about streams, it utilizes built-in functions of ArcGIS.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Francis Rengers
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
Quickly generates input files for and runs GSFLOW, and visualizes the output
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Andrew Wickert
Extended GST model: combination of an analytical GST migration model combined with closure relations based on the assumption of quasi-equilibrium conditions
Terrestrial
Astrid Blom
Depth-averaged fluid dynamics for modeling geophysical flows and wave propagation
Coastal, Terrestrial
Randall LeVeque
Dynamic thermo-mechanical ice sheet model
Cryosphere, Hydrology, Terrestrial
Magnus Hagdorn
E-book: Calculator for evolution of long profile of river with a migrating gravel-sand transition and subject to subsidence or base level rise.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Gary Parker
The GroundwaterDupuitPercolator solves the Boussinesq equation for flow in an unconfined aquifer over an impermeable aquifer base and calculates groundwater return flow to the surface.
Hydrology
David Litwin
This model is designed to simulate longitudinal profiles with headward advancing headcuts.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Francis Rengers
A watershed delineation model based on hexagonal mesh grid
Coastal, Cryosphere, Ecosystems, Hydrology, Terrestrial
Chang Liao
Tools for extracting hilltops and analysing hillslope morphology
Terrestrial
Martin Hurst
Algorithm for directly measuring hillslope length from high resolution topographic data
Terrestrial
Stuart Grieve
An implementation of the Implicit Drainage Area method (regular and hybrid versions) for calculating drainage area from flow directions using parallel iterative solvers.
Hydrology
Alan Richardson
The International Land Model Benchmarking (ILAMB) toolkit
Climate, Cryosphere, Ecosystems, Hydrology, Marine, Terrestrial
Nathan Collier
Read note in extended description. Sandpile method for ice-sheet and glacier reconstruction
Cryosphere, Terrestrial
Jon Pelletier
2D semi-implicit shallow ice approximation glacier model
Cryosphere, Hydrology, Terrestrial
Andy Wickert
Read note in extended description. Stochastic-resonance subroutine of Pleistocene ice ages
Terrestrial
Jon Pelletier
Icepack is a Python package for simulating the flow of glaciers and ice sheets, as well as for solving glaciological data assimilation problems.
Cryosphere, Marine
Daniel Shapero
A model representing infiltration, interception, and runoff using the kinematic wave approximation
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Luke McGuire
Matlab-based scripts to extract topometrics for catchments and identify river knickpoints.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Bodo Bookhagen
Permafrost Active Layer Thickness Model based on Kudryavtsev's parametrization
Cryosphere, Hydrology, Terrestrial
Irina Overeem
LEMming landscape evolution model: a 2-D, regular-grid, rules-based, hybrid finite-difference / cellular automaton model that is designed to explore the effect of multiple rock types on landscape evolution.
Terrestrial
Dylan Ward
Software for estimating constituent loads in streams and rivers
Coastal, Hydrology, Terrestrial
Rob Runkel
The Larval TRANSport Lagrangian model (LTRANS) is an off-line particle-tracking model that runs with the stored predictions of a 3D hydrodynamic model, specifically the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS).
Coastal, Marine
Elizabeth North
Temporarily fills depressions and reroutes flow across them
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Daniel Hobley
Python software framework for writing, assembling, and running 2D numerical models
Coastal, Hydrology, Marine, Terrestrial
Greg Tucker
Landlab component that simulates landslide probability of failure as well as mean relative wetness and probability of saturation.
Human dimensions, Terrestrial
Ronda Strauch
Geometric model to explore autogenic increase of vertical incision rate in entrenching alluvial rivers.
Terrestrial
Luca Malatesta
Read note in extended description. 2D radially symmetric lava flow model
Terrestrial
Jon Pelletier
Landlab component that models soil creep as a linear diffusion process
Terrestrial
Greg Tucker
Component to calculate drainage area and accumulate flow, while permitting dynamic loss or gain of flow downstream.
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Dan Hobley
A set of MATLAB functions to model how luminescence evolves in different geomorphic scenarios.
Terrestrial
Nathan Brown
This is a model to simulate the non-dimensionalized luminescence in a mixing soil.
Terrestrial
Harrison Gray
A stand alone model for the morphological evolution of an idealized transect across a marsh channel-and-platform.
Coastal
Giulio Mariotti
Read note in extended description. Multiple Flow Direction (MFD) flow routing method
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Jon Pelletier
Read note in extended description. Successive flow routing with Multiple Flow Direction (MFD) method
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Jon Pelletier
The MITgcm (MIT General Circulation Model) is a numerical model designed for study of the atmosphere, ocean, and climate.
Climate
Nicole Lovenduski
MODFLOW is a three-dimensional finite-difference ground-water model
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Paul Barlow
MOM6 is the latest generation of the Modular Ocean Model which is a numerical model code for simulating the ocean general circulation.
Marine
MOM6 User community
Macro-roughness model framework for treating erosion, bed cover, and sediment transport in bedrock river channels.
Geodynamic
Li Zhang
Matlab® code for paleo-hydrological flood flow reconstruction in a fluvial channel
Hydrology, Terrestrial
Marius Huber
Simulation of the long-term migration of meandering rivers flowing above heterogeneous floodplains
Hydrology