Title: Coupled Model Exercise Exercise 3
 1Coupled Model ExerciseExercise 3
George H. Leavesley, Research Hydrologist, USGS, 
Denver, CO 
 2TOOL BOX MODELING VIEWS
- Research Model Developer Complex Detail 
- Application Model Developer 
- Model User 
- Resource Manager 
- Policy Maker Condensed 
 Analysis
3LEVELS OF MODULAR DESIGN
Single Purpose
- PROCESS 
- MODEL 
- FULLY COUPLED MODELS 
- LOOSELY COUPLED MODELS 
- RESOURCE MANAGEMENT DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS 
- ANALYSIS AND SUPPORT TOOLS
Multi-objective, Complex 
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 5CRITERIA AND RULES FOR GOOD MODULE DESIGN
Modules should
- relate directly to real world components or 
 processes
- have input and output variables that are 
 measurable values
- communicate solely via these input and output 
 variables
Reynolds J.F., and Acock, B., 1997, Modularity 
and genericness in plant and ecosystem models 
Ecological Modeling 94, p 7-16 
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 7Model Building Tool - XMBUILD 
 8LOOSELEY COUPLED MODELS
MMS Model
Off-the-shelf Model
Database
Data Management Interface (DMI) 
 9LOOSELEY COUPLED MODELS
PRMS
Channel Geometry Analysis Program (CGAP) 
Hydraulics Model
Habitat Suitability Index 
 10OBJECT USER INTEFACE (OUI) 
 11Other Model Integration Approaches
- U.S. 
- BASINS (EPA) 
- FRAMES (DOE, NRC, DOD, EPA) 
- DIAS (DOE) 
- XMS (WMS, GMS, SMS,  - EMS Inc.) 
- OMS (USDA) 
- International 
- HarmonIT (Europe) 
- Catchment Modeling Toolkit (Australia)
12Exercise 3 Problems
- 1.0 MMS_PET 
- Process comparison 
- 2.0 MMS PRMS Daily Mode 
- Watershed model evaluation 
- 3.0 MMS PRMS-HIS 
- Coupled watershed-hydraulics-habitat model
13Potential Evapotranspiration (potet) 
 14PRMS 
 15HRUs 
 16LOOSELEY COUPLED MODELS
PRMS
Channel Geometry Analysis Program (CGAP) 
Hydraulics Model
Habitat Suitability Index 
 17Channel Cross-section 
 18Channel Characteristics 
 19Basic Channel Hydraulics
Q  AV
V  1.486/n  R2/3  S1/2
n is Mannings n R is hydraulic radius 
 S is channel slope 
 20Habitat Suitability Index  Velocity 
 21Habitat Suitability Index - Depth 
 22Weighted Usable Area (WSU)
WUA  S ( velocity_hsi  
 depth_hsi  x-sect_width  100.) 
 23MORE INFORMATION
- http//wwwbrr.cr.usgs.gov/mms 
- http//wwwbrr.cr.usgs.gov/weasel 
- http//wwwbrr.cr.usgs.gov/warsmp 
- http//oms.ars.usda.gov 
- http//www.iscmem.org