DayCent and SWAT connection
Short-term goal (done by mid-summer):
We want to make SWAT and DayCent communicate effectively for the sample Lake Fork model in the following scenarios in order of priority:
1) water quantity
2) N, C, S, and P… nitrous oxide(?), nitrate, ammonium, nitrite
3) salinity (sulfate, Mg, Ca, Na, Cl, carbonate)
Upcoming meetings to help move the process forward:
- Yao – meet with the programmers just to learn how to build DayCent from its code
- Jeff & Yao & I & Dave – meet to discuss how to connect the automatic data collection and delineation applied as SWAT and DayCent input data
- Ryan & Yao & Neil Hansen – get his data from him (I forgot what type of data that was already)
How to reach our goal:
Yao:
- identify the best location in SWAT code to call DayCent
- list variables in SWAT code to give to DayCent for crop production and soil water calculations
- list variables in DayCent to pass back to SWAT and MODFLOW as deep percolation
- create a separate source code file that will perform the connection between DayCent and SWAT
- test this model first at the Lake Fork sample location
- collect data for calibration purposes in the South Platte River Basin: crop yield, root growth, N, C, S, P in soil (field scale)
Tyler:
- Send Yao the version of SWAT code that is linked with MODFLOW
Andre Dozier is a Ph.D. student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering program at Colorado State University where he also received a B.Sc. (Hons.) degree and M.S. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering with a concentration in water resources planning and management. He worked as an Engineer in Training at Natural Resources Consulting Engineers, Inc. for three-and-a-half years during his undergraduate and graduate studies, and served either as a Graduate Research Assistant or a Research Fellow on a variety of projects related to water and power systems operations, water rights, irrigation design, artificial intelligence, and climate change funded by the Department of Energy, Hydro Research Foundation, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. His current research deals with citizen science approaches for water management, interdisciplinary model integration and synthesis, optimization, and decision support to investigate water management solutions under uncertainty in climate, population, land use, and energy preferences. He is or has been a member of ASCE, COSHA, IEEE, and iEMSs, and has received a number of awards and scholarships such as the NSF IGERT Fellowship, IEEE PES Student Paper Prize Award in Honor of T. Burke Hayes, Hydro Research Foundation Fellowship, Borland Advanced Graduate Student, and Colorado Distinguished Scholar Award.
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