Early in the morning on March 14, 2019, the 92-year-old Spencer Dam located on the Niobrara River in Nebraska failed due to a combination of ice accumulation and high flows….

We are currently working to improve the ice melt formulation in EEMS, a new update for EEMS will be available with this feature later this month!

In case you are lucky enough to be missing the recent cold snap that has passed the US by, here is some “cool” time-lapse footage of the impact of wind and cold weather on Lake Michigan….

For sediment transport modeling, EFDC requires a modeler to define particle size classes and specify the median diameter for each class, which can represent the average behavior of the particles…

Remember the Red Tide/Algae Bloom crisis that gain wide attention during 2018? It has been the second long-lasting bloom since 2006, although it is not affecting as wide of an area for now,…

The United States is quickly becoming the world’s largest oil producer, a significant component of this increased production capacity is related to an expansion of offshore oil drilling….

While the standard meteorological convention for the wind direction is the compass direction that the wind is coming from (direction from), in EFDC the standard convention is the compass….

The Asian continent is home to many unique bodies of water that draw intrigue from tourists and travelers around the world. From the waters of the Caspian (the world’s largest landlocked body….

What does a completely encased ice house have in common with rising lake levels? They are both phenomenon happening at Lake Ontario, one of the five Great Lakes along the border between the…

There’s no doubt the waterways of Europe are tourist attractions in themselves, drawing millions to stroll the banks of the River Thames in London and the River Seine in Paris every year….

This is the first in a three-part blog series that provides an introduction to hydrodynamic modeling, an overview of how models work, and, finally, an exploration of their many applications…

The Dynamic Solutions International (DSI) version of EFDC is called EFDC+ (formerly EFDC_DSI). EFDC+ is one of the most used versions of the EFDC model available to the scientific and….

This past weekend, a major fish die-off occurred in West Lake, the largest freshwater lake located in Vietnam’s capital of Hanoi….

The U.S. Department of Energy has the answer with its recently released forecast and roadmap for hydropower from the present to the year 2050. Among the findings, researchers….

DSI has developed an improved version of the EFDC code to help deal with pressure gradient errors that occur in simulations that have steep changes in bed elevation….

Most people who read to obtain information prefer to have the text supplemented with visuals. The advantages of 2D and 3D data visualization are numerous. Aside from effectively summarizing….

In the old days, when you purchased software, there was a tangible element: You received a package of one or more floppy disks or CD-ROMs, which you then used to install the software….

Did you know that EFDC_Explorer has a Downstream Velocity Projection feature? This feature allows the user to specify an orientation angle (degrees clockwise from north, looking downstream) …

Did you know that EFDC_Explorer has a Velocity Rose feature? This feature allows the user to view the speed and direction distribution of a given cell over a user defined period of time….

Did you know that EFDC_Explorer has a “Warm Start” function that allows you to create the initial conditions for the model at a specified time. This is useful for diagnostic and sensitivity analyses….