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PAGE 1 PAGE 32 CMARP: Hydrodynamics monitoring and research Stephen Monismith Stanford University Jon Burau, Randall Dinehart, Rick Oltmann, Cathy Ruhl, David Schoelhammer, Peter Smith USGS Water Resources Division, Ca. District Monitoring objectives for hydrodynamics The monitoring of hydrodynamic variables should be aimed at providing data that is useful for interpreting or using other biological and geochemical data particularly in connection with understanding physical effects on ecosystem functions and processes, environmental compliance, and with the planning and operation of engineered facilities; i.e., with all aspects of adaptive management of the Bay/Delta estuary. The monitoring program should provide: A description of the physical state of the estuary, particularly salinity and water levels throughout. Hydrodynamic data needed to calibrate, verify and operate circulation models of various complexities. These models in turn will provide a way of “monitoring” the movement of passive organisms and chemicals through the system. Used in real time, with active assimilation of real-time hydrodynamic data, as in weather forecasting, these models will also provide information for guiding operations. These models will also be used to hindcast flow patterns and salinities that may also be used to help interpret other monitored quantities, e.g. phytoplankton concentrations. In conjunction with suitable biological and/or geochemical data, to estimate fluxes through key cross sections of the Bay/Delta of salt, sediments, organic carbon, contaminants, organisms. These data can be used in the formulation of budgets of these quantities for evaluation of effects of CALFED actions on the system. Data indicating changes in bathymetry resulting from sediment inputs from the rivers, its redistribution throughout the system, and from CALFED (or other) actions. Conceptual Model Introduction Hydrodynamic processes in the Bay/Delta system move organisms, salt, contaminants