Models and Data

We use wide range of models to understand various hydrological, geomorphological, ecological processes to address our research topics. Some of the models we use include:

ED2: The Ecosystem Demography Biosphere Model is an integrated terrestrial biosphere model capable of simulating short-term physiological responses and long-term ecosystem composition and structure responses to the environmental changes. The model is available on GitHub: https://github.com/EDmodel/ED2

tRIBS: The TIN-based Real-Time Integrated Basin Simulator is a physically-based, distributed hydrologic model that simulates catchment scale hydrologic processes on a Triangulated Irregular Network. More information about the model can be found here.

CHILD: The Channel-Hillslope Integrated Landscape Development model calculates the evolution of topography and stratigraphic deposits in response to erosion and sediment transport by gravitational, fluvial, and tectonic processes. The model is available on GitHub: https://github.com/childmodel/child

AgroIBIS-VSF: Agricultural Integrated Biosphere Simulator with Variably Saturated Flow model is a process-based ecosystem model capable of simulating managed and natural ecosystem dynamics with coupled carbon, water, and energy cycles. The model is an integrated version of Agro-IBIS and HYDRUS-1D models (Soylu et al., 2014).

Landlab is a Python-based numerical landscape modeling environment to quantify earth surface dynamics such as geomorphology, hydrology, glaciology, and stratigraphy (http://landlab.github.io/#/).

Datasets:

Tree census at Bisley Experimental Watersheds three months after Hurricane Maria (https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2020-0012)