HEC-Commander Tools
Open Source
Jupyter notebook suite for batch HEC-RAS and HEC-HMS runs — parallel execution and calibration statistics.
hms-commander
ActivePython automation for HEC-HMS — batch and parallel runs, design storms, and DSS handoff to HEC-RAS.
by CLB Engineering
- Pricing
- Open Source
- License
- MIT
- Commercial use
- Permitted
- Ecosystem
- Python, HEC-HMS
- Platform
- Windows
Install
pip install hms-commanderAbout hms-commander
hms-commander does for HEC-HMS what its sibling ras-commander does for HEC-RAS: programmatic project management, single/batch/parallel simulation execution, design-storm generation (Atlas 14, frequency and SCS types), results extraction, and the DSS operations that hand HMS hydrographs to RAS as boundary conditions — plus terrain/GIS helpers with TauDEM integration.
Maintained by William Katzenmeyer (CLB Engineering), it is marked beta and expects engineering oversight, but it fills a real gap: HMS automation historically meant hand-rolled Jython inside the HMS console, and this brings it into ordinary Python where the rest of your workflow lives.
Where it fits in the workflow
TerrainCatchmentRainfallRunoffRoutingHydraulicsMappingReporting
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