Abstract: | Model statements are presented for describing the oxygen concentration in dependence on various system quantities and five different shallow water bodies. A nonlinear model in the form of a polynomial and with parameter estimation by means of recursive regression proves suitable. It is a blackbox model in which the water temperature, the biomass of phytoplankton and zooplankton and the solar irradiation are the most important input quantities. The model applications to the five water bodies reach measures of determinateness of 0.6 … 0.74 and mean square deviations between the measured and calculated oxygen concentrations of 3 … 4 mg/l O2. Simulations of the model output by changed input data are discussed. |