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URANOS - The Ultra Rapid Adaptable Neutron-Only Simulation for Environmental Research

M. Köhli 1, M. Schrön 2, S. Zacharias 2, and U. Schmidt 1


1 Physics Institute, Heidelberg University,
2 Department of Monitoring and Exploration Technologies, UFZ Leipzig

Cite as:
Köhli, M., Schrön, M., Zacharias, S., and Schmidt, U.: URANOS v1.0 – the Ultra Rapid Adaptable Neutron-Only Simulation for Environmental Research, Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 449–477, 2023. doi:10.5194/gmd-16-449-2023

About


URANOS is a Monte Carlo toolkit specifically tailored for environmental sciences. It can be used to simulate cosmogenic neutron radiation near the Earth's surface and to study its response to environmental factors, such as soil water content, snow, or biomass.

Key features:

  • stand-alone executable,
  • parallelization (can run performantly in multiple parallel instances),
  • graphical user interface (optional) for the command line.
  • 3D voxel engine to allow the generation of complex environments

User community

Currently 24 subscriptions.

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Code, Downloads, & Wiki


Code and instructions via GitHub

Support

For technical support or questions please contact:

uranos@physi.uni-heidelberg.de

Publications using URANOS

Plot of publicaitons using URANOS
Publication list on GitHub

If you use URANOS in a scientific publication, please forward a copy to us. This will help to support the development of URANOS in the future. 

Supporters during 9 years of development


We particularily appreciate the support from Jannis Weimar, Paul Schattan, Daniel Rasche, Jannis Jakobi, Cosimo Brogi, Sugan Kanagasenthinathan, Patrick Stowell, Tatsuhiko Sato, Peter Dietrich.