BGS has developed a number of groundwater modelling software tools that simulate groundwater systems at a range of scales.
The ZOOM suite of models has been designed to simulate local scale flows within regional and national scale groundwater systems. The suite consists of the distributed groundwater recharge model, ZOODRM, the saturated groundwater flow model ZOOMQ3D and the advective solute transport code, ZOOPT. These codes have been applied to a wide range of hydrogeological conditions and hydrological regimes from the arid West Bank, Palestine, to the Dumfries Basin sandstone aquifer in Scotland.
To answer science questions related to environmental change our research is becoming more interdisciplinary. This is requiring the integration of models of different compartments of the water cycle. To facilitate this we are implementing software tools to that enable different models to interact with each other. New technologies such as OpenMI are being used link our models to those of other environmental software developers. For example: we have linked an InfoWorksRS river model with a ZOOMQ3D groundwater model while working in partnership with HR Wallingford. This is being used to simulate the processes operating during the fluvial-driven groundwater floods in Oxford during July 2007.
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Contact Dr Christopher Jackson for further information.