Lake Washington Real-Time Model

BACK Lake Washington Real-Time Model DSI recently developed a real-time model for Lake Washington, along with a public-access model portal. The portal allows users to view historical and current data on measured and simulated water levels, temperature, and velocity, presented in map view, time series, and vertical profiles. Users can also compare the data with…

JSON Formatted Files in EEMS

BACK JSON Formatted Files in EEMS JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is an increasingly common standard data format to store and transmit data objects that use text designed to be easily read by humans. JSON serves as a syntax for serializing objects, arrays, numbers, strings, booleans, and null. Although it is based upon JavaScript syntax, it…

Enhancements to the EEMS GUI

BACK Enhancements to the EEMS GUI As we added new features to EFDC+, our Graphical User Interface (GUI), EFDC_Explorer (EE) has also changed to support these new features and capabilities. In this post, we describe three major changes in the GUI. Water Quality Interface With EFDC+’s new ability to simulate unlimited algal, macrophyte, periphyton, and…

Modeling Interaction Between Phytoplankton and Zooplankton in EEMS

BACK Modeling Interaction Between Phytoplankton and Zooplankton in EEMS Introduction Zooplankton population modeling is a significant new feature in the recently released version of EFDC_Explorer Modeling System (EEMS 10.3). Built as a sub-module of the Water Quality module, the new zooplankton feature is a first step toward modeling the effects of eutrophication on higher-level predators.…