The Centre For Water Research

The book “Environmental Fluid Dynamics” has just been published and may be viewed as a of summary of CWR’s contribution to this field. Second, we have just signed a contract, again with Elsevier, for a book “Physical Limnology” to appear in the middle of 2013. In this book we offer a compendium of hydrodynamic processes operating in lakes and illustrate each with an example from our field programme. Third, the research vessel, Djinnang IV is now fully functioning and the accompanying PFP is also now fully operational. The Djinnang IV can easily be shipped to any site in the world as it fits into a shipping container, giving us the unique capability to work anywhere in the world, where the signal to noise is best for the process we wish to study. Fourth, the data base manager ARMS and the real-time web application RMSO are now fully functional allowing ELCOM-CAEDYM to be set up and running in real time at any new site in a matter of a few days work. With these developments, it is now possible, over the next 10 years, to close the gap between hydrodynamics and biology and provide the biologist with the habitat characteristics that explain the presence of particular observed species. [more information]

CWR delivers a strong postgraduate programme in natural systems engineering. Project areas range from environmental fluid dynamics, aquatic ecosystems dynamics, to sustainability. The tools employed include field experiments, numerical modelling and laboratory investigations. [more information]

Over the last 30 years, CWR's instrumentation and software development together with our deep understanding of fundamental processes have laid the foundations for adaptive realtime management. The fundamental understanding was made possible through the development of the fine-scale profiler, portable flux profile and a combined sensor chain and meteorological station, the Lake Diagnostic System (LDS). Our process understanding provided the basis for the development of three major models : the 3D Estuarine, Lake, Coastal Ocean Model (ELCOM), a hydrodynamic driver, the Computational Aquatic Ecosystem Dynamics Model (CAEDYM) and the Adaptive Realtime Management System model (ARMS). Recently we have incorporated, with considerable success, the open source meteorological boundary layer model, WRF, and shall shortly close the loop by adding a hydrological interface between WRF and ELCOM. In another development we are currently developing a 3D DYRESM, a pseudo 3D code specifically designed to allow long global warming simulations of deep lakes to assess the impact of global warming and land use changes. [more information]