AQUATOX
EPA's aquatic ecosystem model — fate and ecological effects of nutrients, toxics and stressors together.
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Dissolved oxygen, nutrients, temperature, eutrophication — surface-water quality models simulate the chemistry and biology rivers and reservoirs. This page collects the public-agency standards (QUAL2K lineage, WASP, CE-QUAL-W2) and the modern frameworks replacing them.
EPA's aquatic ecosystem model — fate and ecological effects of nutrients, toxics and stressors together.
EPA's watershed assessment suite — HSPF continuous watershed-quality modelling with GIS and data access built in.
The standard 2D reservoir and stratified-river water-quality model — temperature, DO and eutrophication.
Open-source 3D hydrodynamics and water quality — the EFDC lineage modernised, with a commercial GUI option.
USGS R package for long-term water-quality and streamflow trends — home of the WRTDS method.
Multi-species water quality for EPANET — model chloramine decay, DBPs and reactive chemistry in networks.
eWater's stormwater-quality model — the WSUD assessment standard across Australian councils.
USGS geochemical modelling — speciation, batch reactions, 1D reactive transport and inverse modelling.
The classic river water-quality model — DO, nutrients and algae along a 1D stream network.
The USDA watershed model for land use, sediment and nutrients — continuous simulation at catchment scale.
EPA's Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program — eutrophication, toxics and sediment in rivers and estuaries.