Over the years, integrated (environmental) modeling, i.e. the combination of models and simulations of interlinked environmental phenomena, appeared on multiple national and cross-national research agendas. Software tools, such as CCA (Common Component Architecture), ESMF (Earth System Modeling Framework), Kepler and Taverna, have been developed and are continuously improved. We came to a point, where the vast amount of available tools makes it difficult to access which integrated environmental modeling or work flow tool should be used for a particular integration challenge. Who could give examples, best practices or recommendations on when to use which integrated environmental modeling or work flow tool?
Dear Sven,
I actually use and promote Object Modelling System v. 3 that we preferred to OpenMi 1.4, after we really tried it.
I talked about it for instance at
http://abouthydrology.blogspot.it/2011/03/going-beyond-present-stato-of-art-in.html
With respect to CCA is much less invasive and we could integrate it in the jgrasstools which makes any model automatically (or so) available in the uDig Spatial Toolbox.
(links at http://abouthydrology.blogspot.it/2011/07/udig-has-been-spatial-toolbox.html)
Some models of mine already implemented in OMS3 are reported here (you will find also links to the papers):
http://abouthydrology.blogspot.it/2012/09/my-past-research-on-physico-statistical.html
However there are many other models build directly by ARS/USDA, USGS and Jena University.
Hope this helps,
riccardo
P.S. - The philosopy I followed is illustrated in http://www.slideshare.net/GEOFRAMEcafe/geoframe-a-system-for-doing-hydrology-by-computer
(where actually we were still using OpenMI)
Dear Sven,
From my experience you must ask yourself:
- Have you the necessary inputs? (integrated environmental modeling ask more inputs than work flow tool)
-At which level of detail you want to know and you already know that you investigate (it is useless to complicate the simulation)
-how is the sensitivity analysis of the models you want to use? (it is important know which input and parameters have the greaterst impact on the output because those have to be very good).
regads,
patrizia trevisiol
(I implemented object oriented models)
Thanks for your answers. I now spent quite some time diving into the overall topic and your inputs provided good help.
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