Are hydrogeologist/numerical modelers alone by nature?

This can also be a title for this article: Are hydrogeologist/numerical modelers fundamentally alone? We can define "loneliness" in many different ways that range into different stages of human behavior. As we are not in a discussion of what Kant could have defined loneliness, let's define it in a practical way that you are alone as not you are not with someone. This is kind of a definition like: you are because you are not what you aren't.

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Online Mapping Urban Temperature with Istsos and Python - Tutorial

Geospatial mapping of environmental variables is key to understand habitats and in this case urban habitats. We have done research in temperature mapping stored in the cloud with Raspberrys and a Istsos server, this time we have coupled a gps sensor to make urban temperature map from the data retrieved from the server. This tutorial shows the procedure to retrieve the data, convert it to a geopandas datagrame, export as ESRI shapefile and undertand the temperature distribution relation with the land cover.

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How to install the geological Python library Gempy in Windows with WSL - Tutorial

Gempy is an open-source library for modeling geology written in Python. The library is capable of creating complex 3D geological models including structures, fault networks, and unconformities and it can be coupled with uncertainty analysis.

This tutorial is developed under a Ubuntu 20.04.2 image installed from the Windows Store and covers all the steps to setup the user, install core packages, install Python packages and set up local paths to have a complete Gempy enviroment running under Jupyter lab.

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Journal of online sensor setup on a Raspberry Pi under the Istsos framework (SOS Standard)

We dont call this article a tutorial since not all steps of the sensor settings would be explained. It might be the idea of this article to show the general panorama of the sensor installation on a Raspberry Pi under the Istsos framework that implements the SOS standard.

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Groundwater flow modeling using Dupuit approximation with Python and Landlab - Tutorial

This tutorial covers a simulation example of groundwater flow and groundwater discharge with the GroundwaterDupuitPercolator component of Landlab. Simulation is run on steady state over a one layer aquifer and results are plotted on charts and grids.

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Channel network delimitation from a raster DEM with Python and Landlab - Tutorial

Based on the several components of Landlab together with other Python packages some procedures can be established to extract single or multiple stream networks from a digital elevation model (DEM) raster and export them as vector spatial data formats as ESRI shapefiles or plot them in Jupyter Lab.

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Land Cover Change Analysis with Python and Rasterio - Tutorial

This tutorial covers the complete procedure to create a land cover change raster from a comparison of generated vegetation index (NDVI) rasters by the use of Python and the Numpy and Rasterio libraries. Results of the NDVI for given years and NDVI change are plotted on Jupyter Lab as color grid and contour grid.

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Calculation of steepest slope dispersion with drainage area with Python and Landlab - Tutorial

Surface analysis at regional level requires a higher degree of calculation to assess several topics of land management. Usually those types of analysis over raster files were limited to GIS desktop software with results for a single raster and with limited options to create pixel value charts.

Python, Rasterio, Landlab and other high performance packages allow us to have another view of our surface elevation and evaluate different variables that were unthinkable over traditional GIS software. This tutorial shows the complete procedure to open a raster file with Rasterio, import as a Landlab model grid, fill sink and calculate the drainage area. Finally from the Landlab results a dataframe was constructed and the drainage areas were classified in intervals to be plotted on a boxplot with the steepest slope.

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Seawater intrusion modeling with Flopy and Modflow Buy over a Tupac Cloud project - Tutorial

Finally, a complete alternative for the simulation of seawater intrusion on fully geospatial groundwater flow models of coastal aquifers based on open source software. The groundwater flow model was constructed on the Tupac Cloud platform with two stress periods and a total simulation time of 40 years.

The Tupac project is downloaded and run locally on Anaconda where the Buy package for variable density flow together with the transport model are implemented on a Flopy script. A graphical representation of the grid, boundary conditions and results from the flow and transport models are developed as well on the Jupyter notebook.

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How to install (easy way) Python, Geopandas and Rasterio in Windows - Tutorial

Geopandas is an amazing library for spatial analysis since it combines the spatial tools from Shapely and Fiona with the versatility of Pandas Dataframes. Rasterio is one of the most complete libraries to deal with raster files in Python.

We are aware that most geoscientists, water resources specialists and related professionals work on Windows, therefore we are always in the search of new ways to get Python working with all its geospatial capabilities in every computer.

Based on the new Anaconda releases now we can install Geopandas and Rasterio in a easy way.

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Tupac Cloud T.8: Coastal aquifer simulation with wells and rivers on steady and transient states

Applied case of regional groundwater modeling for a coastal aquifer with Modflow 6 using Voronoi meshes on Tupac Cloud. The aquifer has two stress periods (steady state and transient state) of 20 years each that simulate two phases of low/high aquifer exploitation. The model is constructed entirely from zipped shapefiles and rasters on the online platform. Results from the simulation are discussed on the water balances, water table distribution and cross section for all stress periods.

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How long does it take "not knowing" about groundwater modeling

A groundwater flow model is in fact a numerical construction that tries to represent the groundwater flow regime of a certain place with the relevant physical process conceptualized as boundary conditions. So we as humans, capable of developing machine learning algorithms and smartphones, tend to think that building and running a groundwater model is a natural process that will require us to follow certain steps and it would be completed in a certain time. 

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Tupac Cloud T.7: How to download your Tupac Cloud project and run it locally with Python and Flopy

Tupac Cloud is based on Python and Flopy and every project can be downloaded to your machine for special analysis, furter Modflow 6 feature implementation, machine learning based calibration, or just because a local backup copy is required. This tutorial shows the complete procedure to download a Tupac Cloud project, the executable implementation, the scripts to run the flopy code and well as a description of the different files and folders from a model project.

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Tupac Cloud T.6: Transient simulation of tunnel interaction with the groundwater flow regime

This is an applied example of the impact trough time of a tunnel over the regional groundwater flow regime. The model has 5 stress periods with two variants of the drain (DRN) package implemented in Tupac Cloud. The tutorial covers all steps from model construction, boundary condition setup, model run and output data analysis.

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Tupac Cloud T.5: Groundwater modeling of a construction site dewatering with well and trenches

Applied case for the evaluation of a drainage schema on a construction site with Tupac Cloud. The model has three stress periods where the drainage schema starts with well pumping for 10 days and trench drainage with pumping for another 10 days. Results from the water balance were analyzed as well as the final distribution of head on the proposed construction site.

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Tupac Cloud T.4: Transient simulation of the trench excavation impact on a coastal aquifer

Local scale modeling of a 4 stage trench excavation on a coastal aquifer. The main objective of this modeling work is assessing the impact of the excavation on the nearby groundwater flow regime. The modeling work was done entirely with the tools, charts and tables from Tupac Cloud.

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Tupac Cloud T.3: Regional groundwater modeling with recharge, drains and evapotranspiration

Applied example of a regional model of a andean basins with boundary conditions of recharge (RCH), drain (DRN) and evapotranspiration (EVT). The groundwater model has confined and convertible layers with steady state and transient stress periods. The tutorial covers all steps of model construction, model simulation and model output analysis with the different online tools of Tupac Cloud.

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Tupac Cloud T.2: Improved 2D head visualization in Tupac Cloud

Lastest developement in Tupac Cloud for the representation of head as contours and color grid. Both representations have a colorbar and title related to selected layer. Objects as boundary conditions and model mesh can be represented on the plots.

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Tupac Cloud Tutorial 1: River - aquifer interaction groundwater modeling with voronoi mesh

Our first tutorial of voronoi mesh groundwater modeling with Tupac Cloud. The study case deals with the river - aquifer interaction with wells and general head boundaries. The model has confined and convertible layer and two stress periods (steady and transient). The model is run on the platform with a view of the Modflow simulation report. Water budgets and heads are analyzed on different tables, plots and maps.

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Tupac Cloud Beta Tutorial 3: 3D voronoi model mesh generation as Vtk

From the latest developments in our codes, MF6 and Flopy we have created tools in Tupac Cloud for 3d mesh generation as Vtk files. This is an applied example of this functionality based on a dataset for river - aquifer interaction where the resulting Vtk are plotted on Paraview.

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