FloPy
Open SourceVerified
The Python interface to MODFLOW — build, run and post-process groundwater models entirely in code.
Pastas
ActiveTime-series analysis of groundwater heads in Python — transfer-function models instead of full aquifer simulation.
by TU Delft / Artesia
- Pricing
- Open Source
- License
- MIT
- Commercial use
- Permitted
- Ecosystem
- Python, pandas
- Platform
- Windows, macOS, Linux
Install
pip install pastasAbout Pastas
Pastas (TU Delft / Artesia) analyses groundwater head time series with transfer-function noise models: it decomposes observed heads into responses to rainfall, evaporation, pumping and other stresses, quantifying each driver's contribution without building a spatial model at all.
For questions like "how much of this decline is the new wellfield versus the drought," Pastas often answers in an afternoon what a calibrated MODFLOW model answers in a month. It has become the standard tool for head-series analysis in the Netherlands and is spreading with good reason.
Where it fits in the workflow
TerrainCatchmentRainfallRunoffRoutingHydraulicsMappingReporting
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