Coupling of Engineering and Biological Models for Ecosystem Analysis
Publication: Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Volume 131, Issue 2
Abstract
Robust ecosystem analysis of water resource systems remains elusive. A principle reason is the difficulty in linking engineering models used to simulate physicochemical processes associated with project design or operation with biological models used to simulate biological population attributes. A retrospective shows that each modeling tradition can be generally assigned (with exceptions) into either an Eulerian or Lagrangian reference framework. Eulerian and Lagrangian reference frameworks can be coupled to create a new synthesis, the Coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian Hybrid Ecological Modeling Concept (CEL Hybrid Concept), capable of simulating different ecosystem processes that range widely in spatial and temporal scale. The foundation of the CEL Hybrid Concept is the coupler, a collection of algorithms based on conservation principles that transform and conserve data in a way that allows the two frameworks to share a common information base. The coupling algorithm allows the simulation to aggregate, disaggregate, and translate information, as required by each framework, so that processes that differ substantially in scale can each be adequately simulated. The coupled system is illustrated by linking a fish swim path selection model with a hydrodynamic and water quality model.
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Acknowledgments
The tests described and the resulting data presented herein, unless otherwise noted, were obtained from research conducted under the Ecosystem Management and Restoration Research Program of the United States Army Corps of Engineers by the Engineer Research and Development Center. Permission was granted by the Chief of Engineers to publish this information. Software and software license information can be obtained from the Office of Research Technology, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (telephone: 601-634-4113). Further information on CEL Hybrid models can be found at http:∕∕www.wes.army.mil∕el∕emrrp∕nfs∕.
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Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Volume 131 • Issue 2 • March 2005
Pages: 101 - 109
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Received: Aug 20, 2002
Accepted: Oct 27, 2003
Published online: Mar 1, 2005
Published in print: Mar 2005
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