Water Resources of the United States
Water Resources Geochemical Software
This software and related material (data and documentation) are made available by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to be used in the public interest and the advancement of science. You may, without any fee or cost, use, copy, modify, or distribute this software, and any derivative works thereof, and its supporting documentation, subject to the USGS software User's Rights Notice.
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Abbreviations for OSs
Computer systems for which software distribution packages have been compiled are shown in parentheses following the software name; abbreviations used are defined as follows:
- DOS - IBM-compatible PC, 386 or higher with math coprocessor
- DG - Data General AViiON DG/UX
- Linux - Red Hat 6.1 for i386
- Mac - Macintosh
- SGI - Silicon Graphics Indigo
- Sun - Sun SPARCstation Solaris
- Win - Microsoft Windows 3.x, 9x, or NT/2000
- online - the application runs directly from its webpage.
Geochemical list
- Alkalinity Calculator (online) Version 2.20
The Alkalinity Calculator will analyze the titration curve and calculate the alkalinity or acid neutralizing capacity (ANC) of a sample
- BIOMOC (DOS/DG/SGI/Sun) Version 1.0, 1999/03/10
A multispecies solute-transport model with biodegradation
- BLTM (DG) Version 1.2, 1996/11/04
Branched Lagrangian Transport Model
- DOTABLES (online) Version 1.2, 1999/03/16
Dissolved oxygen saturation tables
- LIMS for Light Stable Isotopes (Win) Version 8.15.64, 2007/06/16
A Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) based on Microsoft Access for managing samples, analyses, and other data in a stable isotope (and tritium , carbon-14, and chlorofluorocarbon) laboratory
- NETPATH (DOS/Linux/Win)
Interactive program for calculating NET geochemical reactions and radiocarbon dating along a flow PATH
- OTIS (DOS/DG/Linux/Sun/Win), 1998/04/20
One-dimensional transport with inflow and storage (OTIS): A solute transport model for streams and rivers
- PHAST (Linux/Win) Version 1.4.2-2411, 2007/11/17
PHAST is a 3-dimensional model for simulating ground-water flow, solute transport, and multicomponent geochemical reactions
- PHREEQC (DOS/Mac/Linux/Sun) Version 2.15
A Computer Program for Speciation, Batch-Reaction, One-Dimensional Transport, and Inverse Geochemical Calculations.
- PhreeqcI (Win) Version 2.15.0-2697
Graphical user interface for PHREEQC
- PHRQCGRF (Win) Version 2.2
A Computer Program for Graphical Interpretation of PHREEQC Geochemical Transport Simulations
- R-UNSAT, 2001/09/25
Reactive, multispecies transport in a heterogeneous, variably-saturated porous media
- SPREADBAL-2002
Documentation for the mineral mass balance spreadsheet referenced in Bowser and Jones (2002) American Journal of Science v. 302 p. 582-662.
- SUTRA and related programs
2D, 3D, variable-density, variably-saturated flow, solute or energy transport
- SWPROD (DG) Version 1.2, 1996/03/18
Determination of Primary Productivity and Community Metabolism in Streams and Lakes using Diel Oxygen Measurements
- WATEQ4F (DOS) Version 2.61, 2003/10/28
A program for calculating speciation of major, trace, and redox elements in natural waters
Obsolete software and software that is not actively supported by the USGS
- BALNINPT (DOS/DG/Sun) Version 1.9, 1994/11/14
An interactive program for mass-balance calculations (obsolete program--superseded by NETPATH and PHREEQC)
- PHREEQE (DG/Sun/Unix/Win) Version 2.4, 1994/06/27
A Computer Program for Geochemical Calculation (obsolete program--superseded by PHREEQC)
- PHRQPITZ
A Computer Program Incorporating Pitzer's Equations for Calculation of Geochemical Reactions in Brines (obsolete program--superseded by PHREEQC)