AeoLiS is a process-based model for simulating aeolian sediment transport in situations where supply-limiting factors are important, like in coastal environments. Supply-limitations currently supported are soil moisture contents, sediment sorting and armouring, bed slope effects, air humidity and roughness elements.

Requirements:

• Python 3.9 or newer
• pip 22.0 or newer
• netCDF4

On the comand line of your working environment (Bash/Shell, Conda, Mamba, or similar), run the following:

pip install aeolis

For Windows users, the recommend way to install AeoLiS is to use Anaconda.

1. Clone the repository using Git, or download the source code.

2. AeoLiS users may install the package with only the required dependencies. Go to aeolis-python directory and install using pip

   cd aeolis-python/
   pip install .

3. AeoLiS users who intend to modify the sourcecode can install additional dependencies for test and documentation as follows. Go to root directory aeolis-python/ and:

   pip install -e .[dev]

Examples from command line:

aeolis run <path/to/aeolis.txt/>
# or wind module
aeolis wind <path/to/wind.txt> --mean=6 --duration=3600

Detailed documentation can be found at AeoLiS ReadTheDocs

A couple of short courses are available to help new users get acquainted with the model:

• AeoLiS short course
• AeoLiS case study documentation by ERDC

Example case studies can also be found in the examples folder that is part of the AeoLiS installation.

We encourage (new) users to post questions and case studies on the AeoLiS Discussion Board. We use this public forum so our help and advice is available to everyone.

The maintenance and development is done by a group of very enthusiastic people.

Get Involved: Read our Contribution Guidelines to know how you can help to develop AeoLiS.

Current Members:

• Bart van Westen at Deltares
• Nick Cohn at U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)
• Sierd de Vries (founder) at Delft University of Technology
• Christa van IJzendoorn at Oregon State University
• Caroline Hallin at Lund University
• Glenn Strypsteen at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Previous Members & Contributors:

• Bas Hoonhout (founder)
• Tom Pak
• Pieter Rauwoens
• Lisa Meijer
• Janelle Skaden

Please, cite this software as follows:

de Vries, S., Hallin, C., van IJzendoorn, C., van Westen, B., Cohn, N., Strypsteen, G., Skaden, J., Agrawal, N., & Garcia Alvarez, M. (2023). AeoLiS (Version 3.0.1) [Computer software]. https://github.com/openearth/aeolis-python

• AeoLiS is supported by the Digital Competence Centre, Delft University of Technology.
• The contributing guidelines for AeoLiS are derived from the NLeSC/python-template and numpy contributing guide

© (2023) AeoLiS Development Team, Delft, The Netherlands.