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https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1165-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1165-2024
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08 Oct 2024
Research article |  | 08 Oct 2024

A landslide runout model for sediment transport, landscape evolution, and hazard assessment applications

Jeffrey Keck, Erkan Istanbulluoglu, Benjamin Campforts, Gregory Tucker, and Alexander Horner-Devine

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MassWastingRunout (MWR) is a new landslide runout model designed for sediment transport, landscape evolution, and hazard assessment applications. MWR is written in Python and includes a calibration utility that automatically determines best-fit parameters for a site and empirical probability density functions of each parameter for probabilistic model implementation. MWR and Jupyter Notebook tutorials are available as part of the Landlab package at https://github.com/landlab/landlab.
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