The Subaerial Drainage System Model (SaDS)

The SubAerial Drainage System (SaDS) model is a physically-based dynamic model that represents meltwater flow across the glacier surface in both a distributed sheet and through supraglacial streams. SaDS dynamically evolves the incision depth and width of supraglacial streams, allowing us to dynamically evolve the stream network.

SaDS has been published! See here for all the details.

Citation

Hill, T., and Dow, C. F. (2021). Modeling the Dynamics of Supraglacial Rivers and Distributed Meltwater Flow with the Subaerial Drainage System (SaDS) Model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 126, e2021JF006309. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JF006309