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ArticleThe Science of the total environment2017

Developing and applying metamodels of high resolution process-based simulations for high throughput exposure assessment of organic chemicals in riverine ecosystems.

M Craig Barber, Kristin K Isaacs, Caroline Tebes-Stevens

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Article in The Science of the total environment, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 authors.

M Craig BarberUS Environmental Protection Agency, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Systems Exposure Division, 960 College Station Road, Athens, GA 30605-2700, USA. Electronic address: barber.craig@epa.gov.
Kristin K IsaacsUS Environmental Protection Agency, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Computational Exposure Division, 109 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA. Electronic address: isaacs.kristin@epa.gov.
Caroline Tebes-StevensUS Environmental Protection Agency, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Systems Exposure Division, 960 College Station Road, Athens, GA 30605-2700, USA. Electronic address: stevens.caroline@epa.gov.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As defined by Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamodeling), "(a) metamodel or surrogate model is a model of a model, and metamodeling is the process of generating such metamodels." The goals of metamodeling include, but are not limited to (1) developing functional or statistical relationships between a model's input and output variables for model analysis, interpretation, or information consumption by users' clients; (2) quantifying a model's sensitivity to alternative or uncertain forcing functions, initial conditions, or parameters; and (3) characterizing the model's response or state space. Using five models developed by the US Environmental Protection Agency, we generate a metamodeling database of the expected environmental and biological concentrations of 644 organic chemicals released into nine US rivers from wastewater treatment works (WTWs) assuming multiple loading rates and sizes of populations serviced. The chemicals of interest have log n-octanol/water partition coefficients (logK

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BASS, CTS, EXAMS, KABAM, SHEDS-HTBioaccumulationBrominated flame retardantsFate and transportIntegrated modelingTrophic transfer

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PMID28672236
PMCPMC6093200

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