Major Research Numerical study on responses of aquatic ecosystem to an environmental change

Understanding how aquatic ecosystems respond to changes in their environment is useful for clarifying their current phenomena as well as for formulating future environmental measures. To achieve this objective, it is essential to gather in-situ observation data, but the knowledge that can be obtained from numerical simulations is also useful for a quantitative approach.
Accordingly, we conducted a study using our previously developed numerical model by applying it to a bay adjacent to a city to quantitatively simulate the environmental changes that had occurred there and how the ecosystem had responded to those changes. For our FY2020 activities, we managed to examine models that reflected cutting-edge science including the non-hydrostatic model, detritus cycles, fish models, etc., and prepared necessary models and arranged basic data to be input to the models, etc.