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Modelling open Earth systems

We hope soon to introduce THERMOCALC-powered open-system modelling facilities, based as always on the phase relations encapsulated in the HPx-eos. These facilities will be standalone, but will also link into the Underworld geodynamic modelling toolkit.

Eleanor is trying to wrap her brain around how to handle chemically-open systems in solid-Earth geoscience as a fully general problem, and bridge the communication gap with her colleagues in software development and geodynamics. More news later this week…

Website: progress report

The general structure for the website is now in place, but there is nothing to download yet, other than Luca’s excellent avPy package for olivine-bearing igneous rocks.

One reason for the delay is that THERMOCALC is evolving very fast at present, and we are waiting for a stable version with some new features completed. This will involve some intensive RP-Eleanor discussions after RP gets back from Europe. Late July might be a good estimate for completing the THERMOCALC section.

Post-semester news from Melbourne

Now that the semester is over, Eleanor is writing a lot:

  • the website
  • the transparency paper: clarifying some aspects of the modelling that have been left unclear after recent developments
  • the “uncertainties” paper – really about sensitivity as much as uncertainty: looking at what we can say about uncertainties in the modelling, and contrasting it with what we’d like to say.

RP is away, so all is quiet!

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