Modeling Workgroup

Phase 6 WSM Documentation

The Final Chesapeake Bay Program Partnership Phase 6 CAST and Watershed Model documentation is posted as it becomes available. The documentation is for the time-averaged Watershed Model. CAST is the same as the Model. Creating and running scenarios in CAST is simply using an on-line interface to the Model. The documentation for the Model is the documentation for CAST. Due to the length of the documentation, it is divided into sections. Click on the links below to read through the different portions of the documentation. For more information, please vist CAST model documentation.

  1. Overview
  2. Average Loads
    Appendix 2A:Agricultural Loading Rates
  3. Terrestrial Inputs-coming soon
  4. Sensitivity 
    Appendix 4A: Sensitivity analysis of the HSPF AgChem Model
    Appendix 4B: Sensitivity analysis for all land uses
  5. Land Use-coming soon
  6. Best Management Practices 
    Appendix 6A: BMP Expert Panel Protocol 
    Appendix 6B Order of Load Source Change Credit
  7. Land to Water
  8. Direct Loads - coming soon
  9. Stream to River 
    Appendix 9A: lternate Stream to River Methods
    Appendix 9B: Excluded Reservoir Catchments
  10. River to Bay and Temporal Simulation
    Appendix 10A: Temporal Simulation - coming soon
    Appendix 10B: Temporal Simulation - coming soon
    Appendix 10C: Temporal Simulation - coming soon
  11. Physical Setting
    Appendix 11A: List of Segments
  12. Applications - coming soon
  13. Reviews - coming soon
  14. References - coming soon

The Chesapeake Bay TMDL 2017 Midpoint Assessment

Phase 6 WQSTM Peer Review

This project page is the repository for documents and files related to the peer review of the Phase 6 Water Quality and Sediment Transport Model (WQSTM). Please email Kyle Hinson (khinson@chesapeakebay.net) with any questions you may have.

Documentation

All documentation for the Phase 6 WQSTM can be found in the Draft 2017 documentation and its appendices. Information on key scenarios can also be found in the Phase 6 Key Scenarios pdf file.

Additional Materials

Further attachments contain all the presentations that were presented for the STAC peer review.

Phase 6 WQSTM Peer Review

This section contains resources and publications including prior reviews that may be employed in reviewing the Phase 6 Water Quality and Sediment Transport Model (WQSTM).

Midpoint Assessment

New web page summarizes the priorities and identifies lead researchers for each effort.  The descriptions are brief with links to more detailed workplans.

Chesapeake Bay Bathymetric Volumes

CMAQ Peer Reviews

CMAQ Review Process: During the past three years, CMAS, in collaboration with EPA scientists, has organized two CMAQ review panel meetings etc. The first CMAQ review meeting was held during December 2003. The second meeting was held during May 2005. The review process usually starts by inviting a number of key scientists to participate in the process. The scientists are selected based on their expertise in accordance with the focus of the review session. After reviewing numerous reports and articles and completing their meeting in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, the review panel prepares a comprehensive report on their findings and recommendations. EPA then responds to the comments of the reviewers. Final review reports are posted below.

First Review (December, 2003)

Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) Model - Third Review (February, 2007)

Chesapeake Bay Models

First Chesapeake Bay Phase 5 Watershed Model Review

Second Chesapeake Bay Phase 5 Watershed Model Review (2008)

Chesapeake Bay Water Quality and Sediment Transport Model

Review of the Shallow Water SAV and Clarity Simulation

Peer Review Guidance

The CBP models follow the peer review guidance developed by EPA’s Science Advisory Board (SAB) for regulatory models: http://www.epa.gov/spc/pdfs/modelpr.pdf  and the peer review guidance developed by the Ecological Society of America and endorsed by the American College of Preventive Medicine, American Fisheries Society, American Institute of Biological Sciences, American Public Health Association, American Society of Agronomy, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine, Crop Science Society of America, Ecological Society of America, Estuarine Research Federation, Institute of Food Technologists, Soil Science Society of America, Society for Conservation Biology

Second Review (May, 2005)