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• Drainage Basin Simulation

• Floodplain and Meandering Stream modeling

• Modelling Landform Evolution on Mars

• Animated GIF files of Mars landform simulations (not for modem connections)

• PDF versions of publications and recent abstracts by Alan Howard and students.

• Course-related Information

• Scenic Slide Shows

• Resume of Alan Howard

• Public

• Release Version of the MARSSIM landform evolution model. Please send any corrections or suggestions to ah6p@virginia.edu .
  • Model description as a word document: marssim_program.doc
  • The model program code: source_files.zip
  • Accessor programs: accessory_programs.zip
  • Example simulations for a variety of scenarios: example_runs.zip

   

• Recent powerpoint presentations by Alan Howard
  • Deciphering the Climate of Early Mars based upon Geomorphic Evidence (Brown University, 2008)
  • Inferred Flow properties in Modern Mars Gullies (Brown University, 2008)
  • Simulating Martian Highland Landscapes (Duke University, 2007)
  • AVI Files (optional) for the Duke and Brown talks
  • Estimating and Modeling the Hydrologic Environment of Early Mars (Mars 7 talk)
  • Boulder Transport across the Eberswalde Delta (LPSC 2007)
  • The Light-tomed Sediments in and near lower Mawrth Vallis are a Drape Deposit (LPSC 2007)
  • Hydrology of Early Mars (2nd Martian Valley Network Conference)
  • Planetary Morphodynamics (River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics 09)

Animation of Fluvial erosion in a cratered landscape on Mars with ongoing impact cratering. See: Howard, A. D., Simulating the development of martian highland landscapes through the interaction of impact cratering, fluvial erosion, and variable hydrologic forcing, Geomorphology, v. 91, p. 332-363, 2007

Maintained by : Alan D. Howard, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903.

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email: ah6p@virginia.edu