Open Sustainable Technology

A curated list of open technology projects to sustain a stable climate, energy supply, biodiversity and natural resources.

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Climate Change Informed Species Selection

A Biogeoclimatic Ecosystem Classification-based analysis framework built to anticipate the change climate implications to tree species environmental suitability at a site specific level.

flnr shinyapps

Biosphere - Conservation and Restoration - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.2

Global Healthy and Sustainable Cities Indicators

An open-source tool for calculating spatial indicators for healthy, sustainable cities worldwide using open or custom data.

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Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.8

RavenPy

A Python wrapper to setup and run the hydrologic modelling framework Raven.

raven

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 12.0

OpenFish

An open-source system written in GoLang for classifying marine species.

Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

ClimaLand.jl

Create and run land models in integrated or standalone modes.

Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

Infrastructure Risk Visualisation Tool

Aims to support climate adaptation decision-making by identifying spatial vulnerabilities and risks under current and future climate scenarios.

Climate Change - Natural Hazard and Storm - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

Open Global Infrastructure Risk/Resilience Analysis

Can be used to analyse environmental risks to infrastructure networks using global open data.

Climate Change - Natural Hazard and Storm - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

Open-IMO-CII-Calculator

A C# library for calculating the carbon intensity indicator for ships, in accordance with the International Maritime Organization's carbon regulations.

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Emissions - Carbon Intensity and Accounting - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

National Climate Transparency Tool

Your gateway to ensure robust Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) toward the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) and to accelerate implementation of the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC).

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Emissions - Emission Observation and Modeling - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

Open Data Science Europe Metadata Catalog

Building the Open Data Science Europe Portal, a freely-accessible viewer containing gridded layers for Europe at spatial resolutions of 30-m or better.

Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 0.0

geohabnet

Enable users to visualise a habitat connectivity risk index for agriculture using their own parameter values.

agriculture crop geographical-information-system geography network-analysis networks r surveillance

Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

PyPSA-FES

A model that optimises investment and operation, and incorporates flexibility domestic demand flexibility to model scenarios for Great Britain's future energy system.

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Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.5

Freva

A data search and analysis platform developed by the atmospheric science community for the atmospheric science community.

Atmosphere - Atmospheric Composition and Dynamics - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 0.0

mHM

The mesoscale Hydrological Model.

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

SICOPOLIS

A 3-d dynamic/thermodynamic model that simulates the evolution of large ice sheets and ice caps.

Cryosphere - Glacier and Ice Sheets - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 0.0

HeCo Invest

A digital collaborative platform pilot aimed to support filling the conservation financing gap in the Amazon Basin by optimizing project financing channels in this region.

Sustainable Development - Sustainable Investment - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 0.0

Clay Foundation Model

Clay is a foundational model of Earth using a vision transformer architecture adapted to understand geospatial and temporal relations on Earth Observation data.

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Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.7

ALLFED Integrated Food System Model

An integrated food supply model for resilient foods in nuclear winter.

Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

EV-EcoSim

A grid-aware co-simulation platform for the design and optimization of EV Charging Infrastructure.

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Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.7

UDef-ARP

Facilitate implementation of the Verra tool, VT0007 Unplanned Deforestation Allocation.

Biosphere - Conservation and Restoration - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

CloudScanner

Get Boavizta impact data for your AWS cloud account usage.

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Consumption - Computation and Communication - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.9

Planscape

Help regional planners prioritize landscape treatments for mitigating fire risk, maximizing ecological benefits and helping California′s landscapes adapt to climate change.

Biosphere - Wildfire - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

RBBGCMuso

A software package that supports the application of the Biome-BGCMuSo biogeochemical mode, which simulates the storage and fluxes of water, carbon and nitrogen between the ecosystem and the atmosphere, and within the components of the terrestrial ecosystem.

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Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.5

feo-client

Crafted for energy systems modellers seeking access to data for nodes, assets, technologies, as well as the data supporting models and scenarios published by TransitionZero.

Energy Systems - Energy System Data Access - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 9.9

Icebergs

Model large tabular icebergs submerged in the ocean known as Kinematic Iceberg Dynamics.

Cryosphere - Sea Ice - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.7

BuildingMOTIF

Enabling the semantic interoperability of advanced building technologies needed to fully decarbonise buildings.

Sustainable Development - Taxonomy and Ontology - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 11.0

ComStock

National scale modeling of the U.S. commercial building stock supported by U.S. DOE, LADWP, and others and maintained by NREL.

Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

timex_lca

A python package for time-explicit Life Cycle Assessment that helps you assess the environmental impacts of products and processes over time.

Industrial Ecology - Life Cycle Assessment - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

EMMA

The core repository for environmental data processing in the Ecological Monitoring and Management Application EMMA.io.

Biosphere - Conservation and Restoration - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

HydPy

An interactive framework for developing and applying different types of hydrological models, originally developed at the Ruhr-University Bochum for specific research purposes.

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 12.9

Open Sustainable Technology

A directory and analysis of the open source ecosystem in the areas of climate change, energy, biodiversity and natural resources.

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Sustainable Development - Knowledge Platforms - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 11.8

Awesome Open Geoscience

Curated from repositories that make our lives as geoscientists, hackers and data wranglers easier or just more awesome.

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Sustainable Development - Curated Lists - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 11.6

OS-Climate Data Commons

Collect, normalize and integrate climate and ESG data from public and private sources.

Sustainable Development - Sustainable Investment - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.3

pvdeg

Set of tools to calculate degradation responses and degradation related parameters for PV.

degradation duramat photovoltaic-systems pv-modules python reliability

Renewable Energy - Photovoltaics and Solar Energy - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 12.4

SOILWAT2

An ecosystem water balance simulation model.

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

GEOPHIRES-X

Combines reservoir, wellbore, surface plant, and economic models to estimate the capital and operation and maintenance costs, instantaneous and lifetime energy production, and overall levelized cost of energy of a geothermal plant.

Renewable Energy - Geothermal Energy - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

open-sdg

A platform for collecting and disseminating data for the Sustainable Development Goal global indicators.

Sustainable Development - Sustainable Development Goals - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.8

Finch

A Web Processing Service for Climate Indicators.

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Climate Change - Climate Data Processing and Analysis - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 9.5

Grid2Op

A testbed platform to model sequential decision making in power systems.

grid2op gym-environments powergrid powergrid-operation reinforcement-learning reinforcement-learning-environments

Energy Systems - Energy Distribution and Grids - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.1

AirCasting

The project aims to build a platform for gathering, visualization and sharing of environmental data.

Natural Resources - Air Quality - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 8.2

honeybee

A Python library to create, run and visualize the results of daylight (RADIANCE) and energy analysis (EnergyPlus/OpenStudio).

Renewable Energy - Photovoltaics and Solar Energy - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.4

pangeo

A community platform for Big Data geoscience.

hacktoberfest

Climate Change - Earth and Climate Modeling - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 11.1

pvcompare

A model for comparing the benefits of different PV technologies in a specified local energy system in different energy supply scenarios.

Renewable Energy - Photovoltaics and Solar Energy - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.9

OpenLCA

An open source and free software for Sustainability and Life Cycle Assessment.

eclipse-rcp java openlca

Industrial Ecology - Life Cycle Assessment - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

LISF

A software framework for high performance terrestrial hydrology modeling and data assimilation developed with the goal of integrating satellite and ground-based observational data products.

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 9.3

eemeter

An open source Python package for implementing and developing standard methods for calculating normalized metered energy consumption and avoided energy use.

building-energy efficiency energy energy-data energy-efficiency

Energy Systems - Energy Monitoring and Management - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 20.3

stglib

Routines used by the USGS Coastal/Marine Hazards & Resources Program to process oceanographic time-series data.

Hydrosphere - Ocean and Hydrology Data Access - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

clisops

Climate simulation operations.

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Climate Change - Climate Data Processing and Analysis - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 14.3

ROSCO

NREL's Reference OpenSource Controller for wind turbine applications.

Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 13.8

soilDB

Simplified Access to NCSS Soil Databases.

cran kssl nasis nrcs r soil soil-data-access soil-survey soilweb sql usda

Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 18.8

SIMONA

Provides a simulation toolbox to run and implement large-scale agent-based electricity grid simulations with focus on distribution grids.

agent-based-simulation electricity energy energy-transition powersystem research simulation

Energy Systems - Energy Distribution and Grids - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.6

heatwaveR

Contains the original functions from the RmarineHeatWaves package that calculate and display marine heatwaves according to the definition of Hobday et al. (2016).

Hydrosphere - Ocean Carbon and Temperature - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 11.5

QSDsan

A package for the quantitative sustainable design of sanitation and resource recovery systems.

dynamic-simulations life-cycle-assessment process-modeling quantitative-sustainable-design resource-recovery sanitation sustainability-analysis techno-economic-analysis

Industrial Ecology - Life Cycle Assessment - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 12.3

entsoe-py

A Python client for the ENTSO-E API (European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity).

Energy Systems - Energy System Data Access - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 22.5

PowSyBl Open Load Flow

An open source implementation of the load flow API that can be found in PowSyBl Core. It supports AC Newtow-Raphson and linear DC calculation methods.

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Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.1

RRTMGP.jl

A Julia implementation of Rapid and accurate Radiative Transfer Model for General Circulation Models.

Atmosphere - Radiative Transfer - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.0

SHARPy

Simulation of High Aspect Ratio aeroplanes and wind turbines in Python.

aeroelasticity aeronautics simulation structural-dynamics structures wind-turbines

Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

DPsim

A solver library for dynamic power system simulation.

dynamic-phasors electromagnetic-transient emt power-systems powerflow quasi-stationary real-time simulation

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 13.2

HPXML to Home Energy Score Translator

This translator script takes an HPXML file or directory of files as an input and generates HEScore inputs from it.

Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 10.2

oemof-thermal

Provides tools to model thermal energy components as an extension of oemof.solph, e.g. compression heat pumps, concentrating solar plants, thermal storage and solar thermal collectors.

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 11.9

ACCESS-NRI Intake Catalog

Aims to provide a way for Python users to discover and load data across a broad range of climate data products available on the Australian NCI supercomputer Gadi.

Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 10.1

earth2mip

A python framework that enables climate researchers and scientists to explore and experiment with AI models for weather and climate.

climate deep-learning weather

Climate Change - Earth and Climate Modeling - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.4

windpowerlib

A library to model the output of wind turbines and farms.

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Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 16.7

Veros

Powerful tool that makes high-performance ocean modeling approachable and fun.

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Hydrosphere - Ocean Circulation Models - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 14.2

OpenIPSL

A library of power system component models written in the Modelica language that can be used for power system dynamic analysis, such as phasor time-domain simulations.

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Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.9

MOM5

A numerical ocean model based on the hydrostatic primitive equations.

Hydrosphere - Ocean Circulation Models - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 8.5

FarmVibes.AI

Can develop rich geospatial insights for agriculture and sustainability.

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Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 8.7

pulpo

A python-based optimization tool for life cycle assessment (LCA) that aims to import, optimize, solve, retrieve, save, and summarize LCA results.

brightway ecoinvent lca lifecycle optimization pyomo

Industrial Ecology - Life Cycle Assessment - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.6

powerplant

Provides intelligent planting suggestions which maximize positive crop interaction for the mutual benefit of all your crops.

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Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.5

Pysolar

A collection of Python libraries for simulating the irradiation of any point on earth by the sun. It includes code for extremely precise ephemeris calculations.

Renewable Energy - Photovoltaics and Solar Energy - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 11.8

PyForecast

A statistical modeling tool used by Reclamation water managers and reservoir operators to train and build predictive models for seasonal inflows and streamflows.

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Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.6

ecmwf-opendata

A package to simplify the download of ECMWF open data.

Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 15.2

rabpro

Delineating watershed basins and computing attribute statistics using Google Earth Engine.

manuscript python

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

CLIMA-Land

Everything within the Land model (Soil Plant Atmosphere Module, Land Hydrology, etc).

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Climate Change - Earth and Climate Modeling - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

WindSE

A Python package that uses a FEniCS backend to perform wind farm simulations and optimization.

Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

openairmaps

Combine the robust analytical methods found in openair with the highly capable leaflet package.

Natural Resources - Air Quality - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 12.1

PyLandStats

An open-source Pythonic library to compute landscape metrics.

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Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 12.4

RAT

Uses satellite remote sensing data to monitor water surface area and water level changes in artificial reservoirs.

Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 10.0

icesTAF

Functions to support the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea Transparent Assessment Framework.

Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.3

elapid

Species distribution modeling tools, including a python implementation of Maxent.

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Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 11.1

burnr

Basic tools to analyze forest fire history data (e.g. FHX) in R.

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Biosphere - Wildfire - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 10.1

Photovoltaic_Fault_Detector

Model-definition is a deep learning application for fault detection in photovoltaic plants.

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Renewable Energy - Photovoltaics and Solar Energy - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.7

Near Real-Time Survey Progress and Temperature Maps

Create daily survey station daily temperature and anomaly plots as the ships work their way through the Bering Sea.

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Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.0

Awesome Green Software

Research, tools, code, libraries and training to for building applications that emit less carbon into our atmosphere.

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Sustainable Development - Curated Lists - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 9.9

PyPES

A class hierarchy designed to represent configurations of process engineering systems, such as wastewater treatment or desalination plants.

Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.8

e-mission

Enables people to track their travel modes—by car, bus, bike or walking and measure their associated energy use and carbon footprint.

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.1

ocp

Use AI to model and discover new catalysts for use in renewable energy storage to help in addressing climate change.

Renewable Energy - Hydro Energy - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 0.0

pv-system-profiler

Estimating PV array location and orientation from real-world power datasets.

Renewable Energy - Photovoltaics and Solar Energy - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 8.3

semanticClimate

Conversion of IPCC documents into semantic form.

Climate Change - Climate Data Processing and Analysis - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.5

ApsimX

An agricultural modeling framework used extensively worldwide.

Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 10.6

DeepSensor

A Python package for tackling diverse environmental prediction tasks with neural processes.

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.0

EUREC4A Intake catalogue

Access to data from the EUREC4A field campaign, which aims to improve the understanding of the interplay between clouds, convection and circulation and their role in climate change.

Atmosphere - Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosol - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.2

Climakitae

Enable a transition from climate vulnerability assessments to decision support for investor-owned utilities and other stakeholders.

Climate Change - Climate Data Processing and Analysis - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.9

Teikei

A web application and API that maps out community-supported agriculture in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, based on crowdsourced data.

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Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 10.9

PyCrop2ML

A free, open-source library for defining and sharing CropML models used to represent the various biological processes involved in crop models.

crop-model program-transformation source-to-source transpiler

Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.9

Cropbox.jl

Provides a domain specific language for developing crop models.

crop-model cropbox julia

Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.0

Cover Crop Species Selector

Used to help farmers select a cover crop that fits their goals and constraints.

Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.9

FOODON

Provides a neutral and ontology-driven standard for government agencies, industry, nonprofits and consumers to name and reference food products and their components throughout the food supply chain.

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Sustainable Development - Taxonomy and Ontology - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 8.0

AgIsoStack-plus-plus

ISO-11783 stack for smart agricultural machinery communication.

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Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.7

HexWatershed

A mesh independent flow direction model for hydrologic models.

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Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 11.3