The architecture and application of an automatic operational model system for basin scale water environment management and design making supporting

An advanced framework for automatic water quality forecasting and water quality management design supporting was put forward. The system is designed as a flexible and extensible service-oriented architecture with data center, system control center, model center and client center. Two operational running modes, one for water environment automatic assessment and forecast and the other for situational analysis, were set to satisfy water quality management requirements. With loosely-coupled air-land-water numerical models, the weather, pollutants sources, hydrodynamic and water quality are automatically forecasted. According to philosophy of the framework, a one-stop platform with four different subsystems for the Three Gorges Reservoir Basin (TGRB) was developed and has been in operational running for more than two years. The system can accurately assessed, forecasted and perfectly displayed the current status and future character of TGRB in air, land and water environment.