WASP8.1 model input file

[Vasker Sharma]

Dear all

I am using Water quality analysis and simulation program (WASP8) and currently i am involved in calibrating the model.

I am very new to this calibrating tool and i am facing following problems:

1.I do not know how to create model input file (input.dat) for WASP8. please help me how do we get the model input file.

2 since i want to calibrate 6 time series variables  (DO, BOD, WTEMP, nitrate, Phosphate, Ammonia) at the same time. How can i enter the all these 6 observed variables together in OstIn.txt? Is it even  possible to calibrate all the variables together?

I have referred the ostrich manual, however i am not able to proceed because of above two problems.

please someone guide me with as to how to proceed.

Your help would be very much appreciated.

kind regards

[L. Shawn Matott]

Hi Vasker,

This is intended to be a user group for the OSTRICH tool. For questions about creating a WASP input file you might be better off asking over at their user group: 

http://epawasp.twool.com/

For time series analysis, it is possible to include all of the observations in a given time series to OSTRICH. However, there will be lot's of correlation among the observations. I gather most people would down-sample and focus on matching peaks and valleys of the time series rather than the full set of observations.

Finally, I don't think WASP generates an output file that can be readily parsed by OSTRICH ---- things may have changed as I haven't used WASP since version 5. You'll need to identify the output format for WASP8 files (maybe netcdf? or hdf5?) and then try to find a module in Python or R that can assist you to extract the simulated equivalents.

Good luck!

Thanks,

--- Shawn Matott