SELFE - Case Studies

We recommend that you use the most recent version of SELFE:

Parallel SELFE v4.0
- Released under GPL v2.0 license
- Option to compile and use PETSc for solving for elevations
- Combined transport for temperature, salinity, and other tracers
- Caching for NetCDF atmospheric forcing files
- Download Source Code (tarball)
- Source code repository

Unsupported historical versions:

SELFE parallel v3.1dc
- Released under previous OHSU license - July 2011
- Includes: EcoSim2.0, an oil spill model
- Download Source Code
SELFE serial version*
- Most recent serial version: v1.5k7 - May 2008
- Download Source Code
ELCIRC serial version
- Most recent serial version: 5.4c - June 2007
- Download source code
ELCIRC parallel version
- MPI version of 5.01.02g
- Download source code

*Although the serial version is quicker to set up, it lacks many new developments that were included in the parallel version. Therefore it's definitely worthwhile to compile and use the parallel version. If you don't have a cluster available, you can still run the parallel version with 1 CPU only.