Models and Tools

Surface-Groundwater Interactions

Surface Water Models

HSPF

Hydrological Simulation Program - FORTRAN (HSPF) is a comprehensive package for simulation of watershed hydrology and water quality for both conventional and toxic organic pollutants.

RAVEN

Raven is a robust and flexible hydrological modelling framework, designed for application to challenging hydrological problems in academia and practice.

HYPE

The Hydrological Predictions for the Environment (HYPE) model is a semi-distributed catchment model, which simulates water flow and substances on their way from precipitation through different storage compartments and fluxes to the sea

Sustainable Water through Integrated Modeling

Scientific models of complex water resource systems help us understand and experiment with the behavior of those systems. Most scientific modeling today requires the use of software that can be hard to understand, expensive to build and maintain, and present little online access. Many of these challenges can be tackled through the use of software that bridges the capabilities of water resource system modeling and the needs of water resource stakeholders. The goal of the SWIM project is to advance water sustainability research capabilities through the integration, execution and interpretation of water models and participatory reasoning processes. Using the meaning of data and models, SWIM facilitates interpretations of water availability in the US Southwest and North of Mexico for stakeholder-driven analysis from the socio-environmental perspective.

WFLOW

Wflow consists of a set of python programs that can be run on the command line and perform hydrological simulations.

SPHY

The Spatial Processes in Hydrology (SPHY) model is a hydrological modeling tool suitable for a wide range of water resource management applications. SPHY is a state-of-the-art, easy to use, robust tool, that can be applied for operational as well as strategic decision support.

Ground Water Models

MODFLOW

MODFLOW is the USGS's modular hydrologic model. MODFLOW is considered an international standard for simulating and predicting groundwater conditions and groundwater/surface-water interactions.

MAGNET

Multiscale Adaptative Global NET work for Water is a global water modeling platform cloud-based, data-enabled, hierarchical, real-time interactive, accessible anywhere and anytime enabling simulation f groundwater and watershed dynamics anywhere in the world.

GEMPY

GemPy is an open-source tool for generating 3D structural geological models in Python. As such, it enables you to create complex combinations of stratigraphical and structural features such as folds, faults, and unconformities. It was furthermore designed to enable probabilistic modeling to address parameter and model uncertainties.

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