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This page allows users to drill down a subject tree, select criteria, and see a matching list of models.

This classification scheme is adapted from the hierarchy of environmental indicators as found in the EPA's Report on the Environment. It provides a mechanism to identify models that may apply for particular types of problem and/or environmental contexts.

Please click on the red arrows to drill down into the criteria. The arrows will open and close the different levels of criteria.

Select checkboxes to see matching models. Selecting multiple checkboxes will provide those models that meet ALL of the selected criteria.

You may then select the models by name to see more detail.

Regulations
• CWA: Clean Water Act
• FIFRA: Federal Insecticide; Fungicide; and Rodenticide Act
• TSCA: Toxic Substances Control Act
• FQPA: Food Quality Protection Act
• WRDA: Water Resources Development Act
• SDWA: Safe Drinking Water Act
• FFDCA: Federal Food; Drug; and Cosmetic Act
• CAA: Clean Air Act
• BRERA: Brownfields Revitalization and Environmental Restoration Act
• EPCRA: Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act
• CEPA: Canadian Environmental Protection Act
• SARA: Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986
• CERCLA: Comprehensive Environmental Response; Compensation; and Liability Act (1980)
• RCRA: Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
• SWDA: Solid Waste Disposal Act
• PPA: Pollution Prevention Act
• CAAA: Clean Air Act Amendments
• WQA: Water Quality Act of 1987

Releases to the Environment
• Pollutant Type
  • Physical (e.g., radiation, heat particles, fibers, noise)
  • Chemical (e.g., organic, inorganic, toxics)
  • Biological (e.g., microbial)
• Source Type
  • Point Source (e.g., tank, spill, stack, discharge pipe)
  • Area Source (e.g., spray, fertilizer, lagoon, holding area)
  • Mobile Source (e.g., automobiles, trains, ships, airplanes)

Ambient Conditions
• Media
  • Ground (e.g., soil, sediment)
  • Air
  • Water (e.g., surface water, ground water)
  • Ecosystem
• Processes
  • Predicts for static conditions
  • Deterministic, providing single values for key model outputs
  • Predicts for dynamic conditions
  • Stochastic, providing a distribution of values for key model outputs
  • Primarily distributed representation
  • Primarily lumped representation

Exposure or Uptake
• Exposure Characterization
• Location
• Frequency and Duration
• Pathway (e.g., inhalation, digestion, dermal, injection)
• Body Burden - Dose (e.g., phamacokinetics, retention, transformation)

Indicators
• Human Health Indicators
  • Mortality
  • Chronic and Acute Diseases
  • Other Human Health Indicators
• Ecological Indicators
  • Population changes
  • Biomass Changes
  • Land Use Changes
  • Chronic and Acute Diseases among Plants and Animals
  • Other Ecological Indicators
• Damage
  • Damage to natural resources
  • Damage to engineered structures and materials
  • Effects on property value
  • Other damage

Model List