Casal2 - Basic User Guide

CASAL2 is an advanced software package developed for modelling population dynamics. While it has been primarily designed for marine species, it can model anything that has abundance measured in either age, length or size.

Contents

• Installation
  • Supported Operating Systems and Environments
  • Obtaining The Files
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Linux (Ubuntu/Debian .deb installer)
  • Docker Image (Linux)
• Configuration File Syntax
  • Basic Concepts
  • Advanced Concepts
  • Keywords and Reserved Characters
• Writing Your First Model
  • Creating your input configuration file
  • Specifying the Model object
  • Specifying the Categories for our model
  • Initialisation and Time Steps
  • Checkpoint
  • Recruitment Process
  • Maturation Process
  • Mortality Process
  • Ageing Process
  • Selectivities
  • Run the model
  • The final model input configuration file
  • Next steps
• Solving Your First Model
  • Adding a second input configuration file
  • Specifying the minimiser
  • Observations of the population
  • Parameters for the model to solve
  • Required reports
  • Checking and solving the model
  • The final model input configuration files

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page