Fluvial and Glacial Erosion Simulation

This project models fluvial and glacial erosion using numerical simulations. It implements the (simplified) stream power law to analyze terrain evolution under the influence of water and glaciers.

Repository Contents

• érosion-fluviale.ipynb
• érosion-glaciaire.ipynb
• Terrasses.ipynb

Requirements

Install the required dependencies with:

pip install numpy matplotlib rasterio pyproj

References

This project is based on research from:

• Hergarten, Stefan. (2021). A stream-power law for glacial erosion and its implementation in large-scale landform-evolution models. 10.5194/esurf-2021-1.
• Liebl, Moritz & Robl, Jörg & Hergarten, Stefan & Egholm, David & Stüwe, Kurt. (2023). Modeling large-scale landform evolution with a stream power law for glacial erosion (OpenLEM v37): benchmarking experiments against a more process-based description of ice flow (iSOSIA v3.4.3). Geoscientific Model Development. 16. 1315-1343. 10.5194/gmd-16-1315-2023.

And the data come from :

• Hengl, Tomislav, Leal Parente, Leandro, Krizan, Josip, and Bonannella, Carmelo. 2022. Continental Europe Digital Terrain Model. Distributed by OpenTopography. https://doi.org/10.5069/G99021ZF. Accessed: 2024-12-05.