The Landlab project creates an environment in which scientists can build a numerical landscape model without having to code all of the individual components. Landscape models compute flows of mass, such as water, sediment, glacial ice, volcanic material, or landslide debris, across a gridded terrain surface. Landscape models have a number of commonalities, such as operating on a grid of points and routing material across the grid. Scientists who want to use a landscape model often build their own unique model from the ground up, re-coding the basic building blocks of their landscape model rather than taking advantage of codes that have already been written.

More information can be found at the website:

http://landlab.github.io

This open-source manuscript is a gateway for entering the Landlab world:

http://www.earth-surf-dynam.net/5/21/2017/

After installation, tests can be run with:

$ python -c 'import landlab; landlab.test()'

The most current development version is always available from our git repository:

http://github.com/landlab/landlab