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Water Ecosystems Tool (WET) 1.0 – a new generation of flexible aquatic ecosystem model
Nicolas Azaña Schnedler-Meyer
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of
Denmark (DTU), Silkeborg, Denmark
Tobias Kuhlmann Andersen
Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Vejlsøvej 25, 8600
Silkeborg, Denmark
Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research, University of Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Fenjuan Rose Schmidt Hu
Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Vejlsøvej 25, 8600
Silkeborg, Denmark
Karsten Bolding
Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Vejlsøvej 25, 8600
Silkeborg, Denmark
Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research, University of Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Bolding & Bruggeman ApS, Strandgyden 25, 5466 Asperup, Denmark
Anders Nielsen
Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Vejlsøvej 25, 8600
Silkeborg, Denmark
Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research, University of Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Dennis Trolle
Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Vejlsøvej 25, 8600
Silkeborg, Denmark
Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research, University of Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Short summary
We present the Water Ecosystems Tool (WET) – a new modular aquatic ecosystem model configurable to a wide array of physical setups, ecosystems and research questions based on the popular FABM–PCLake model. We aim for the model to become a community staple, thus helping to consolidate the state of the art under a few flexible models, with the aim of improving comparability across studies and preventing the
re-inventions of the wheelthat are common to our scientific modeling community.
We present the Water Ecosystems Tool (WET) – a new modular aquatic ecosystem model configurable...
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