Posts tagged soil
CPlantBox -
- 17 February 2026
CPlantBox is a 3D functional-structural plant model (FSPM) that is built in a modular way that can be used at several levels of complexity. CPlantBox describes the geometry of plants by their individual organs, such as roots, stems, and leaves, which evolve over time. It can model functional aspects such as water and carbon dynamics within the plant, and provides general tools to build plant soil-interaction models. To solve partial differential equations CPlantBox can use the finite volume solver DuMux and offers simplified Python interfaces in the repository dumux-rosi.
ParFlow - Parallel Watershed Flow Model
- 12 December 2024
ParFlow is a parallel, integrated hydrology model that simulates spatially distributed surface and subsurface flow, as well as land surface processes including evapotranspiration and snow. It solves saturated and variably saturated flow in three dimensions using either an orthogonal or terrain-following, semi-structured mesh that enables fine vertical resolution near the land surface and deep (~1 km) confined and unconfined aquifers. ParFlow models dynamic surface and subsurface flow solving the simplified shallow water equations implicitly coupled to Richards’ equation; this allows for dynamic two-way groundwater surface water interactions and intermittency in streamflow. The model uses robust linear and nonlinear solution techniques and exhibits efficient parallel scaling to large processor counts, more than 100K cores, enabling very large extent simulations with fine spatial resolution. ParFlow has been coupled to various land surface and atmospheric models such as CLM, WRF, and TerrSysMP.