hms-commander
Open Source
Python automation for HEC-HMS — batch and parallel runs, design storms, and DSS handoff to HEC-RAS.
HEC-Commander Tools
ActiveJupyter notebook suite for batch HEC-RAS and HEC-HMS runs — parallel execution and calibration statistics.
by CLB Engineering
- Pricing
- Open Source
- License
- MIT
- Commercial use
- Permitted
- Ecosystem
- Python, Jupyter, HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS
- Platform
- Windows
About HEC-Commander Tools
HEC-Commander is William Katzenmeyer's notebook-based automation suite for the HEC stack: RAS-Commander notebooks for parallel batch execution of HEC-RAS unsteady plans (including across remote machines), HMS-Commander notebooks for calibration-parameter sweeps via Jython, and DSS-Commander for plotting results against gauges with calibration statistics. It is also a well-documented case study in AI-assisted engineering scripting, with conference material to match.
For pipeline-grade automation the newer ras-commander and hms-commander Python libraries (same author) are the cleaner dependency; the notebooks remain the fastest way to see the whole batch-run-and-calibrate workflow working end to end, and to adapt it interactively.
Where it fits in the workflow
TerrainCatchmentRainfallRunoffRoutingHydraulicsMappingReporting
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