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Influences of Seasonal Vegetation Dynamics and Morphological Change on Water Age and Connectivity in River Deltas [Dataset]


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Abstract

This resource contains the complete Delft3D Flexible Mesh (DFM) input files for the nine numerical experiments reported in Jean Louis et al. (2026), "The role of seasonal vegetation dynamics in shaping river delta channel networks and morphodynamics," Geomorphology 506, 110327 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2026.110327) The model simulates the initial formation of a river delta in an idealized Cartesian basin with cell sizes of 25–50 m, loosely representing the Wax Lake Delta, Louisiana, USA. A river channel debouches into a receiving basin over an erodible bed of 20 m of sediment mixed at a mud-to-sand ratio of 0.30:0.70. The downstream water level is held at zero, and no tides or waves are applied. With a morphological acceleration factor of 10, the 365-day hydrodynamic simulation corresponds to ten years of morphological evolution. Vegetation is represented statically through the Baptist et al. (2007) roughness formulation, activated in the MDU and supplied with spatially uniform, temporally constant fields of 40 stems m⁻², 0.01 m stem diameter, and 0.3 m stem height inside a polygon covering the marsh platform. The no-vegetation deck differs by a single line — Vegetationmodelnr — with all other input files byte-identical, so the vegetation effect is isolated and independently verifiable. The dynamic vegetation runs are a product of DFM coupled with NBSDynamics (https://github.com/Deltares-research/NBSDynamics) Each scenario folder holds the grid, bathymetry, boundary conditions, sediment and morphology configuration, vegetation polygon and forcing file, and a relative-path DIMR configuration. Runs used the D-Flow FM kernel 1.2.104.67016M. Model output is not included.

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The following web services are available for data contained in this resource. Geospatial Feature and Raster data are made available via Open Geospatial Consortium Web Services. The provided links can be copied and pasted into GIS software to access these data. Multidimensional NetCDF data are made available via a THREDDS Data Server using remote data access protocols such as OPeNDAP. Other data services may be made available in the future to support additional data types.

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MetaData Resource type: Composite Resource, or Model Instance if linked to a Model Program resource for Delft3D FM. Subject keywords: Delft3D FM, D-Flow FM, DIMR, Baptist, vegetation roughness, nature-based solutions, morphodynamics, sediment transport, river delta, Wax Lake Delta, geometric efficiency, idealized model. Spatial coverage: none. The domain is an idealized Cartesian basin and is not geo-referenced, so no bounding box applies. Temporal coverage: 2001-01-01 to 2001-12-31 model time (365 days; 10 morphological years at `MorFac = 10`). License: CC-BY-NC 4.0, matching the article. Related resources: the article, DOI 10.1016/j.geomorph.2026.110327; the Delft3D FM source, https://oss.deltares.nl/web/delft3dfm; and NBSDynamics, https://github.com/Deltares-research/NBSDynamics.

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Funding Agencies

This resource was created using funding from the following sources:
Agency Name Award Title Award Number
U.S. National Science Foundation None 2142881
U.S. National Science Foundation None 2023443
U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center None W912HZ2220005
U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center None W912HZ2520012

How to Cite

Jean Louis, M., Dijkstra, J., Hiatt, M. (2026). Influences of Seasonal Vegetation Dynamics and Morphological Change on Water Age and Connectivity in River Deltas [Dataset], HydroShare, http://www.hydroshare.org/resource/4de5ad8d088f437db5b62b3f6308583f

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