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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<journal-title>EGUsphere</journal-title>
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<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2026-4366</article-id>
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<article-title>GeoEnthalpy-Delta v1.0: an enthalpy-based model for coupled subaerial and subaqueous delta evolution with diagnostic moving boundaries</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Lorenzo-Trueba</surname>
<given-names>Jorge</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7082-7762</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Anderson</surname>
<given-names>William</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7164-1345</ext-link>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Bui</surname>
<given-names>Viet</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0009-0006-7372-9048</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Voller</surname>
<given-names>Vaughan</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8116-1567</ext-link>
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<sup>3</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA 94550, USA</addr-line>
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<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA</addr-line>
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<day>26</day>
<month>10</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>54</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Jorge Lorenzo-Trueba et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>Deltaic systems are vulnerable landscapes and stratigraphic archives, but modeling their evolution over long timescales requires methods that conserve sediment while allowing geomorphic boundaries to move. We present GeoEnthalpy-Delta v1.0, a fixed-grid enthalpy model for idealized fluvial-deltaic evolution in one and two spatial dimensions. The model evolves sediment thickness over a prescribed non-erodible basement, reconstructs the sediment surface, and diagnoses the alluvial&amp;ndash;bedrock transition, shoreline, and delta toe from the evolving thickness and surface-elevation fields. Sediment redistribution is represented by a thresholded, slope-driven transport law with separate topset, foreset, down-system, and lateral mobility parameters, allowing finite foreset storage and fan-delta planform spreading without remeshing or explicit front tracking.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We verify the one-dimensional implementation against analytical benchmarks for fixed sea level, square-root sea-level histories, vertical-foreset and graded-river limits, and post-autobreak retreat under constant sea-level rise. Two-dimensional experiments are evaluated using mass conservation, grid consistency, and moving-boundary diagnostics. Model demonstrations show that shoreline retreat can occur while the toe continues to prograde during cyclic sea-level forcing, and that lateral thresholds, foreset thresholds, sediment input, and feeder width control fan width, shoreline-to-toe separation, and sediment partitioning. GeoEnthalpy-Delta v1.0 provides a compact and reproducible baseline for studying coupled delta morphology and stratigraphy and for future incorporation of hydrodynamic, coastal, and subsidence processes.</p>
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<award-id>1854371</award-id>
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