What's New in AQUATOX Release 3?

What does AQUATOX do? | Potential Applications | Features and Tools

AQUATOX Release 3 includes numerous significant enhancements over previous versions, that increase the realism and utility of the model. The most important enhancements include:

• Capability to represent estuaries at a screening level
• Capability to model multiple linked river and reservoir segments
• Enhanced reservoir management options, including variable thermocline depth
• Enhanced nutrients analysis, including
  • nutrient release from sediments
  • daily dissolved oxygen fluctuations
  • toxicity from low oxygen and ammonia
• Optional hourly time step with diel oxygen, light, and photosynthesis
• Calcite precipitation and removal of phosphorus under alkaline conditions
• Capability to simulate biological effects of suspended and bedded sediments
• Calculation of biological metrics
• Enhanced sensitivity and uncertainty analyses
• Toxicity data estimation from ICE (Interspecies Correlation Estimation)
• Expanded data management, graphics, and statistical analysis, including:
  • Conversions for many units in input screens
  • Enhanced graphics including log plot, duration and exceedance graphs, and threshold analysis
  • Capability to plot observed data against model results and save multiple graphs
  • Output of statistics for all graphed model results
• Integrated users manual and context-sensitive help files
• The software is now open source, meaning that other modelers can customize AQUATOX for their particular application