Articles | Volume 10, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-1645-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-1645-2017
Model description paper
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20 Apr 2017
Model description paper |  | 20 Apr 2017

The Landlab v1.0 OverlandFlow component: a Python tool for computing shallow-water flow across watersheds

Jordan M. Adams, Nicole M. Gasparini, Daniel E. J. Hobley, Gregory E. Tucker, Eric W. H. Hutton, Sai S. Nudurupati, and Erkan Istanbulluoglu

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OverlandFlow is a 2-dimensional hydrology component contained within the Landlab modeling framework. It can be applied in both hydrology and geomorphology applications across real and synthetic landscape grids, for both short- and long-term events. This paper finds that this non-steady hydrology regime produces different landscape characteristics when compared to more traditional steady-state hydrology and geomorphology models, suggesting that hydrology regime can impact resulting morphologies.
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