Computational Hydrology Lab
CODE

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE


Flow

MESH-SED

MESH-SED is a physically-based sediment transport model for large scale catchments. The model estimates the hillslope and the in-stream transport of sediments and report sediment concentration at every cell of the computational mesh used by the hydrological model. The model estimates sediment concentration for a large number of sediment grain sizes and it is loosely coupled to MESH, one of the Environment and Climate Change Canada hydrological models.

Lake

UCLAKE

UCLAKE is a 1D lake model that estimate the thermal structure in lakes. The model discretizes a lake basin domain in different layers that dynamically resize upon changes in lake volume. The model is computationally efficient and is suitable to investigate long-term changes in lake thermal structure.

LA Morales-Marín, JR French, H Burningham, C Evans and A Burden Simulating seasonal to multi-decadal variation in lake thermal response to meteorological forcing using the UCLAKE 1-dimensional model code. Limnologica, 88, 125874, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.limno.2021.125874
GUI

FVCOM-GUI

FVCOM-GUI is a graphical user interface (GUI) used to pre- and post-processing FVCOM model input and output data. The GUI is programmed in Matlab and offers different options to display FVCOM output data saved in a NetCDF file.

wind-waves

UCL-SWM

UCL-SWM is a wind-wave hindcasting model to propagate surface water waves. The model estimate wave period, height and amplitude across a water body domain. It is suitable to estimate wind-wave characteristics in lakes.

Morales-Marin, Luis Alejandro and French, JR and Lindenschmidt, Karl-Erich. Exploratory modelling of wind-generated wave and current bottom stress and potential for sediment resuspension in small lakes Limnologica, 126267, 2025.