Texas A&M University Stream Quality Model
Abstract
The Texas A&M University Stream Quality Model (TAMUSQM) is a user-friendly computer program designed to simulate water quality in streams and rivers. It has been written to meet the need for a reasonably simple to operate stream quality model that can be used on a microcomputer. In the model development, the primary indicator of water quality was considered to be the dissolved oxygen level and the factors that affect it. Other quality constituents defined by the user may also be simulated.
The model is applicable to well mixed dendritic streams under steady state conditions. It allows for multiple waste discharges, withdrawals, and tributary flows and change in stream width, depth, and velocity. Verification of the model has been attempted by comparison of simulated results to observed values using the Buffalo Bayou in Houston, Texas as a test case.
Description
Program year: 1985/1986Digitized from print original stored in HDR
Subject
Texas A&M University Stream Quality Modelwater quality
dissolved oxygen level
Buffalo Bayou
Citation
Thompson, Michael F. (1986). Texas A&M University Stream Quality Model. University Undergraduate Fellow. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /CAPSTONE -ThompsonM _1986.