The CCMP is always interested in highlighting and promoting open source environmental models. Over the years, we have featured many in our quarterly newsletter. We also once hosted an on line catalog of these models. We are bringing this catalog back with the models below. To filter them by type, please use the menu on the left side of the page.
If you have additional information about any of these models or know of other models you’d like to share, please drop us a line!
Chesapeake Assessment Scenario Tool (CAST)
Chesapeake Assessment Scenario Tool (CAST) is the Chesapeake Bay Program’s [...]
Chesapeake Bay ROMS Community Model (ChesROMS)
ChesROMS is a community ocean modeling system for the Chesapeake [...]
ChesROMS-ECB
ChesROMS-ECB (Chesapeake Regional Ocean Modeling System – Estuarine Carbon Biogeochemistry) is [...]
Community Model for Coastal Sediment Transport
Schematic of the bed model As its name [...]
Community Sediment Transport Modeling System (CSTMS)
The Community Sediment Transport Modeling System (CSTMS) is an open-source [...]
Curvilinear Hydrodynamics in 3-Dimensions – Waterways Experiment Station (CH3D_WES)
CH3D-WES (Curvilinear Hydrodynamics in 3-Dimensions - Waterways Experiment Station) is [...]
ELCIRC
ELCIRC is an unstructured-grid model designed for the effective simulation [...]
Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code (EFDC)
The Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code (EFDC) is a state-of-the-art hydrodynamic [...]
EwE and Ecospace
Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) is an ecological modeling software [...]
Generalized Additive Model (GAM)
Figure 1: Effect of using a linear model versus [...]
Hydrologic Engineering Center River Analysis System (HEC RAS)
Software that allows you to perform one-dimensional steady and unsteady [...]
HydroTrend
HydroTrend v.3.0 is a climate-driven hydrological water balance and transport [...]
Larval TRANSport Lagrangian model (LTRANS)
The Larval TRANSport Lagrangian model (LTRANS) is an off-line particle-tracking [...]
Princeton Ocean Model (POM)
The Princeton Ocean Model (POM), a simple-to-run yet powerful ocean [...]
Process-based Adaptive Watershed Simulator (PAWS)
Water resource problems are complicated by rapid global change and [...]
Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS)
ROMS is a Free-surface, terrain-following, orthogonal curvilinear, primitive equations ocean [...]
ROMS – FVCOM-ICM
FVCOM-ICM is a three dimensional biophysical model made up of [...]
RT-Flux-PIHM
Schematic representation of processes in RT-Flux-PIHM. The discretized mesh [...]
Simulating processes in vegetated estuaries using COAWST
Submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) and marshes provide ecosystem services, including [...]
The Penn State Integrated Hydrologic Modeling System – PIHM Model
The PIHM model is an open source hydrologic model based [...]
The Second Generation Chesapeake Bay Operational Forecast System (CBOFS2): A ROMS Based Modeling System
This is a special case of the Regional Ocean Modeling [...]
UnTRIM
UnTRIM is a semi-implicit finite difference (-volume) model based on [...]
Wave and Current Supported Sediment Gravity Flow Model (WSGFAM)
Simulates wave and current supported sediment gravity flows along the [...]