AEM3D is a 3-Dimensional coupled Hydrodynamic-Aquatic Ecosystem Model, based on the internationally recognized model ELCOM-CAEDYM developed by the Center for Water Research. Distributed by HydroNumetrics (http://www.hydronumerics.com.au/), AEM3D is used to simulate the velocity, temperature, salinity, nutrients and biogeochemistry in surface waters that are subjected to environmental and anthropogenic forcing such as wind, tides, surface heating and cooling, inflows, withdrawals, bubblers and mixers.
Model runs with 500-m horizontal grid, and 45 vertical layers, with thickness varying between 0.5-m and 5-m. The layers near the lake surface and bottom, as well as thermocline depth were set to 0.5-m. Model ran from 2019 Sep. 1st with 5-min time steps.
We use a Python script to retrieve online daily historical climate data (-24h – 0h) and predictive meteorological model outputs (0h – 240h) , and prepare the input files for hind-cast, real-time and fore-cast CFD models via a MATLAB script.