Water application software will lead the way for the future. Know more about which software you can use for water applications, and how they help below.

FloPy:

Created by the U.S. Geological Survey, this Python package can be used for making, post-processing, and operating MODFLOW-based models. You will be able to find the newest version of FloPy and all other supporting information on the GitHub website.

FloPy offers support for MODFLOW-2005, MODFLOW-2000, MODFLOW-NWT, MODFLOW-LGR, and MODFLOW-USG. The software is available for free in the public domain inside the United States.

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MODFLOW 6: USGS Modular Hydrologic Model

The primary purpose of the MODFLOW program is to simulate the flow of groundwater accurately and effectively. With increasing development in surface and groundwater interactions, there has been a need to create more MODFLOW versions.

The creation of the alternative MODFLOW versions has proved to be somewhat problematic for the underlying program structure. MODFLOW 6 functions as an object-oriented program to provide a platform for supporting models.

Multiple models can feature in a simulation even if they are independent of each other. MODFLOW 6 offers two types of hydrologic models, the Groundwater Transport (GWT) Model and the Groundwater Flow (GWF) Model.

Flow-Conditioned Parameter Grid Tools

These tools exist as a Python 3 library, and they are used to make flow-conditioned parameter grids (FCPGs) from input parameter datasets and flow direction grids. The FCPGs created using this tool library cater to four-digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC4) areas easily.

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ModelMuse

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ModelMuse acts as a graphical user interface for the following U.S. Geological Survey (USGS): MODFLOW-LGR2, MODFLOW–2005, MODFLOW 6, MODFLOW-LGR, and MODFLOW-NWT among others. With this software package, you will have access to a GUI where you will be able to create input files.

ModelMuse regards the spatial data for the model as independent of the grid while the temporal data are not connected to stress periods. Since you will be able to make the inputs independently, you will be at liberty to redefine the temporal and spatial discretization whenever you want.

PEST++

PEST++ is a software suit that is meant for uncertainty analysis, parameter estimation and sensitivity analysis. Practitioners of environmental modeling can use the tools provided by PEST++ for decision-making. The PEST++ tools come with a built-in multithreaded parallel run manager. 

Written in C++, the PEST++ software suite represents object-oriented universal computer code. PEST++ is able to accommodate complicated and highly parameterized problems.

EDEN

EDEN will give you access to an integrated network made of interpolation models and water-level gauges that can estimate the water-level data on a daily basis. The package has the scripts to run the interpolations model in order to make the daily water surfaces.

GW_Chart

This program is utilized for making special graphs that can be used for studies related to groundwater. GW_Chart combines functional elements from Hydrograph Extractor and Budgeteer. It also has some new features. You will be able to create the following graphs with GW_Chart:

  • Calibration Plots
  • Hydrographs
  • Lake Plots
  • Farm Budgets
  • Piper Diagrams
  • Water Budget Plots

Cell Water Budgets

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