Coast Model

The Coast Model is not a single "model," but instead is a code framework that can be configured at runtime to represent many different models depending upon the specific process algorithms and data specified in the input files. At the present time (December 1999) the Coast Model only contains algorithms used by the Pacific Salmon Commission (PSC) chinook model. To configure the Coast Model to represent other salmon harvest models, such as the Fishery Regulation Analysis Model (FRAM) or the Proportional Migration (PM) model, new algorithms must be added to the processes. The general idea is to build up a library of algorithms for each process so the same code framework can be configured to represent a wide variety of models. In its current incarnation, the Coast Model framework is also extremely useful as an investigative tool, as demonstrated by the included suite of example datasets.

Wednesday, 16-May-2001 15:46:42 PDT

README (briefly describes the default set of input and output data files)

Win32 System Requirements:

IBM compatible computer, 486/66 Mhz, 16 MB of RAM, 20 MB available hard disk space

The Coast Model distribution includes by default the executable (coast.exe), the dataset corresponding to the final 1998 Pacific Salmon Commission validation for its harvest model, complete documentation, other example data files, an ActiveX component version of the executable, and the full source code with compilation instructions.

Unix Distribution:

The Coast Model is not currently available for Unix systems. However, the source code and documentation may be obtained by downloading a tar.gz file.