K. A. Slepchuk, T. V. Khmara
Marine Hydrophysical Institute of RAS, Sevastopol, Russia
Abstract
The possibility of using optimization methods of mathematical programming during a calibration of biogeochemicalmodels is discussed. It describes how to use the one-dimensional water quality model for the prediction of the dynamic of phytoplankton and nutrients in the Sevastopol Bay surface water. The simulated data are compared with in situ data, averaged over 2001 – 2005. Due to the sufficiently large misfit of simulated and in situ data the Hooke-Jeeves optimization method is used.
Keywords
biogeochemical modeling, calibration of biogeochemical model, optimization method, Hooke-Jeeves method