The Climate Tech Handbook

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Sustainable Development - Knowledge Platforms - Last synced: 16 Jun 2026 - Ranking: 8.7

ORAC

An optimal estimation retrieval scheme for the estimation of aerosol and cloud properties from a wide range of visible-infrared imaging satellites, such as MODIS, AATSR, AVHRR and SEVIRI.

Atmosphere - Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosol - Last synced: 16 Jun 2026 - Ranking: 7.2

GENeSYS-MOD

An open-source energy system model, originally based on the Open-Source Energy Modeling System (OSeMOSYS) framework, with various additions - available in GAMS and Julia/JuMP.

Energy Systems - Energy System Modeling Frameworks - Last synced: 16 Jun 2026 - Ranking: 4.7

LandBOSSE

The Land-based Balance-of-System Systems Engineering model is a systems engineering tool that estimates the balance-of-system costs associated with installing utility scale wind plants (10, 1.5 MW turbines or larger).

Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Last synced: 17 Jun 2026 - Ranking: 11.1

DALES

Dutch Atmospheric Large-Eddy Simulation model.

Climate Change - Earth and Climate Modeling - Last synced: 16 Jun 2026 - Ranking: 8.4

MegaDetector

Deep learning tools that accelerate the review of motion-triggered wildlife camera images.

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Biosphere - Terrestrial Wildlife - Last synced: 17 Jun 2026 - Ranking: 11.3

Environmental Footprint Data

Aims to reference as much data as possible to help organizations to evaluate the environmental footprint of their information systems, applications and digital services.

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Consumption - Computation and Communication - Last synced: 16 Jun 2026 - Ranking: 7.6

PCSE

A framework developed for implementing crop simulation models developed in Wageningen.

Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 16 Jun 2026 - Ranking: 16.8

eplusr

Provides a rich toolkit of using whole building energy simulation program EnergyPlus directly in R, which enables programmatic navigation, modification of EnergyPlus, conducts parametric simulations and retrieves outputs.

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Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 16 Jun 2026 - Ranking: 12.0

modisfast

An R package designed for easy and fast downloads of MODIS Land products, VIIRS Land products, and GPM (Global Precipitation Measurement Mission) Earth Observation data.

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Sustainable Development - Taxonomy and Ontology - Last synced: 16 Jun 2026 - Ranking: 10.2

pyOpenRiverCam

Surface velocity, object tracking, and river flow measurements in an open-source API.

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Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Last synced: 17 Jun 2026 - Ranking: 16.9

FAIR

Finite Amplitude Impulse-Response simple climate-carbon-cycle model.

Climate Change - Earth and Climate Modeling - Last synced: 16 Jun 2026 - Ranking: 16.4

BiRD

A toolbox to simulate and analyze different designs of bioreactors in OpenFOAM.

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Renewable Energy - Bioenergy - Last synced: 17 Jun 2026 - Ranking: 11.0

dataRetrieval

This R package is designed to obtain USGS or EPA water quality sample data, streamflow data and metadata directly from web services.

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Natural Resources - Water Supply and Quality - Last synced: 16 Jun 2026 - Ranking: 20.1

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: 17 Jun 2026 - Ranking: 7.0

PowerSimulations.jl

A Julia package for power system modeling and simulation of Power Systems operations.

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Energy Systems - Energy System Modeling Frameworks - Last synced: 17 Jun 2026 - Ranking: 9.8

eeweather

Fetch NCDC ISD, TMY3, or CZ2010 weather data that corresponds to ZIP Code Tabulation Areas or Latitude/Longitude.

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Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 17 Jun 2026 - Ranking: 6.7

GeoCLUSTER

A Python-based web application that provides a collection of interactive methods for streamlining the visualization of the technical and economic modeling of closed-loop geothermal systems.

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Renewable Energy - Geothermal Energy - Last synced: 16 Jun 2026 - Ranking: 4.6

NeuralGCM

A package for building hybrid ML+Physics atmospheric models for weather and climate simulations.

Climate Change - Earth and Climate Modeling - Last synced: 17 Jun 2026 - Ranking: 17.5

remind

A numerical model that represents the future evolution of the world economies with a special focus on the development of the energy sector and the implications for our world climate.

Climate Change - Integrated Assessment and Climate Policy - Last synced: 16 Jun 2026 - Ranking: 5.9