Now shipping v4.5.5

Latest features & what's new

CE-QUAL-W2 is continuously developed. Each release sharpens the numerics, broadens the water-quality kinetics and smooths the modeling workflow — here's what stands out today.

Release highlights

Headline improvements in version 4.5.5

The most impactful additions modelers feel on day one.

    Version history & release notes

      Feature reference

      Everything the model brings to a study

      The complete set of capabilities that make CE-QUAL-W2 a long-standing standard for 2D water-resources modeling.

      Robust numerics

      An implicit/explicit finite-difference solution with adaptive time-stepping keeps long, multi-year simulations stable and efficient.

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      Open source code

      The full Fortran source ships with the model, so kinetics and boundary conditions can be inspected, audited and extended.

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      Pre & post tooling

      Companion utilities help build bathymetry, prepare inputs and visualize results — see the tools section.

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