Creative computing with Landlab: an open-source toolkit for building, coupling, and exploring two-dimensional numerical models of Earth-surface dynamics

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

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-5-21-2017

Articles | Volume 5, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-5-21-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-5-21-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 5, issue 1

Research article

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16 Jan 2017

Research article |

| 16 Jan 2017

Creative computing with Landlab: an open-source toolkit for building, coupling, and exploring two-dimensional numerical models of Earth-surface dynamics

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

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SC1: 'Smooth transition between open and closed-source software', Wolfgang Schwanghart, 05 Oct 2016
- AC1: 'Reply to Wolfgang's comment', Daniel Hobley, 06 Oct 2016
  - AC2: 'Final response to comment', Daniel Hobley, 24 Nov 2016
RC1: 'Landlab: A service to the Earth-surface community', Andrew Wickert, 24 Oct 2016
- AC3: 'Reply to Andrew's comment', Daniel Hobley, 24 Nov 2016
RC2: 'Review of Hobley et al. creative computing with Landlab', Benjamin Campforts, 11 Nov 2016
- AC4: 'Reply to Benjamin's comments', Daniel Hobley, 24 Nov 2016

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Daniel Hobley on behalf of the Authors (24 Nov 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (07 Dec 2016) by Simon Mudd

ED: Publish as is (14 Dec 2016) by Tom Coulthard (Editor)

AR by Daniel Hobley on behalf of the Authors (16 Dec 2016)

Short summary

Many geoscientists use computer models to understand changes in the Earth's system. However, typically each scientist will build their own model from scratch. This paper describes Landlab, a new piece of open-source software designed to simplify creation and use of models of the Earth's surface. It provides off-the-shelf tools to work with models more efficiently, with less duplication of effort. The paper explains and justifies how Landlab works, and describes some models built with it.