CSTT, dCSTT and LESV
CSTT and dCSTT
CSTT refers to the UK 'Comprehensive Studies Task Team', which first proposed the model in 1994.
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CSTT and dCSTT models |
Scale B - definition | Any species | North Atlantic | email: Paul Tett
go to: CSTT model page (at Napier University) |
| Description: | A box model that predicts the maximum phytoplankton chlorophyll that can result from nutrient enrichment. The model exists in steady state (CSTT) and dynamic (dCSTT) versions. The water body that it represents can be described as a single box (CSTT and dCSTT) or a three-layer system in which physical exchange between the layers is taken from the ACExR physical model that is part of LESV (see below) | |||
| Links to documents: | Model descriptor | Model reliability | Report on dCSTT | |
| Links to other tools: | Indicators | Sites |
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The simplifed CSTT box model showing exchange with an open water body and nutrient pathway |
LESV
LESV refers to 'Loch-Ecosystem State Vector' (model)
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LESV model |
Scale B - definition | Any species | North Atlantic | email: Paul Tett
go to: Assimilative Capacity model page (at Napier University) |
| Description: | Loch (fjord) ecosystem state vector model, a development of the CSTT model including oxygen and phytoplankton type and able to simulate seasonal change. | |||
| Links to documents: | Model descriptor | Model reliability | ||
| Links to other tools: | Indicators | Sites |
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| Schematic diagram showing the main processes in the LESV model |
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| Schematic diagram showing the main physical exchanges between the 3 layers of the physical model ACExR which provides the transports for LESV |
