1. General Model Information

Name: Contaminant Fate Model

Acronym: TOXFATE

Main medium: aquatic
Main subject: (eco)toxicology, biogeochemistry
Organization level: Ecosystem
Type of model: compartment model, ordinary differential equations
Main application:
Keywords: water pollution, lakes, pollutants,toxic accumulation

Contact:

Efraim Halfon
Lakes Research Branch
National Water Research Institute
Canada Centre for Inland Waters
867 Lakeshore Rd., P.O. Box 5050
Burlington, Ontario
CANADA L7R 4A6
phone: (905) 336-4917
fax:
email: Efraim Halfon

Author(s):

David S. Brendon, Dr. Efraim Halfon

Abstract:

The Contaminant Fate Model TOXFATE simulates the behaviour of one or more pollutants within a completely mixed lake and determines the toxic accumulation in water, phytoplancton, zooplancton, fishes, sediments and benthos. It uses information both on the chemical properties of the pollutant itself and on the local environmental conditions, such as water circulation, mean wind velocity, concentration of suspended solids. From a mathematical point of view, the model is represented by a set of parametric differential equations, that can represent several pollutants in a lake, a single pollutant in several lakes or any mixture of the two.

source of abstract: GAIA model-database at Laboratorio di Informatica Territoriale e Ambientale (LITA)

II. Technical Information

II.1 Executables:

Operating System(s): see contact address

II.2 Source-code:

Programming Language(s): see contact address

II.3 Manuals:

II.4 Data:

III. Mathematical Information

III.1 Mathematics

III.2 Quantities

III.2.1 Input

III.2.2 Output

IV. References

Efraim Halfon and David Brendon (1990). SIMULATION OF THE FATE OF TOXIC CONTAMINANTS IN LAKE ONTARIO-STEADY STATE MODEL.

Halfon, Efraim, T.J. Simons and W.M. Schertzer (1984). Modeling the spatial distribution of seven halocarbons in Lake St. Clair in June 1984 using the TOXFATE model. International Association for Great Lakes Research, 1990. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 16, No. 1, 90-112.

V. Further information in the World-Wide-Web

VI. Additional remarks

Last review of this document by: Tue Sep 30 11:06:13 1997 J. Benz
Status of the document:
last modified by Tobias Gabele Wed Aug 21 21:44:51 CEST 2002