- The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) is a river basin scale model that will be adapted and parameterized for the investigated sub-catchment of Yuqiao reservoir. The optimized model will be used to test hypotheses of nutrient mobilization and hydrological runoff formation in sloped areas and how it matches observed episodic hydrological and chemical data from field studies. See: http://swatmodel.tamu.edu/
- Changes in fluxes of nutrient fractions due to climate change and land management practices will be investigated by using downscaled climatologically scenarios.
- A system for cyanobacterial bloom pre-warning will be developed based on an existing 1-dimensional lake thermodynamics mode calibrated against high-frequency field observations and satellite imagery. The model will help alert scientists and managers to possible threats to Yuqiao Reservoir and assist in mitigation efforts