520 Exploring Surface Processes using Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System Modeling Tools: How to Build Coupled Models
Predicting long-term Earth surface change or the impacts of short-term natural hazards requires computational models. Many existing numerical models quantitatively describe sediment transport processes, predicting terrestrial and coastal change at a great variety of scales. However, these models often address a single process or component of the earth surface system. The Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System (CSDMS) is an NSF-funded initiative that supports the open software efforts of the surface processes community. CSDMS distributes >300 models and tools, and provides cyberinfrastructure to simulate lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, or cryosphere dynamics. Many of the most exciting problems in these fields arise at the interfaces of different environments and through complex interactions of processes. This workshop presents recent cyberinfrastructure tools for hypothesis-driven modeling: the Python Modeling Tool (PyMT) and Landlab. PyMT allows users to interactively run and couple numerical models contributed by the community, and Landlab is a library for building 2D numerical models. The full-day tutorial aims to provide a short overview of the PyMT and Landlab, a demonstration of running a coupled model, and hands-on exercises using Jupyter notebooks in small groups of attendees.
Friday, 23 October 2020
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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