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 # ClearWater-Riverine
-ClearWater-Riverine is a two-dimensional (2D) water quality model for complex river systems and floodplains. It is developed by the Environmental Laboratory, U.S Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC). The intent of this model is to simulate the transport (advection and diffusion) of heat and water quality constituents in riverine systems by integrating it with ERDC's ClearWater (Corps Library for Environmental Analysis and Restoration of Watersheds modules. 
 
-The current version of ClearWater-Riverine simulates generalized conservative constituent transport. Ongoing development is extending these capabilities to simulate fundamental eutrophication processes such as the interactions between temperature, nutrients, algae, dissolved oxygen, organic matter, and sediment diagenesis. ClearWater-Riverine assumes vertical homogeneity. Therefore, it is best suited for evaluating riverine systems during conditions where vertical stratification does not contribute significantly to the water quality dynamics, but where the longitudinal and lateral changes of water quality are important.
+The [ClearWater-riverine]([url](https://github.com/EcohydrologyTeam/ClearWater-riverine)) package is a two-dimensional (2D) water quality transporter model to calculate conservative advection and diffusion of constituents from an unstructured grid of flows within complex river systems and floodplains. It is developed with modern Python by the the [U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)](https://www.erdc.usace.army.mil), [Environmental Laboratory (EL)](https://www.erdc.usace.army.mil/Locations/EL/). 
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+The goal of this model is to simulate the transport (advection and diffusion) of heat and water quality constituents in riverine systems by coupling it to ERDC's [ClearWater (Corps Library for Environmental Analysis and Restoration of Watersheds) modules](https://github.com/EcohydrologyTeam/ClearWater-modules) that simulates water quality processes and kinetics. At present, the Temperature Simulation Module (TSM) and Nutrient Simulation Module (NSM) have been successfully coupled to HEC-RAS-2D models via ClearWater-Riverine, simulating fundamental eutrophication processes such as the interactions between temperature, nutrients, algae, dissolved oxygen, and organic matter. ClearWater-Riverine assumes vertical homogeneity. Therefore, it is best suited for evaluating riverine systems during conditions where vertical stratification does not contribute significantly to the water quality dynamics, but where the longitudinal and lateral changes of water quality are important.
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+A secondary goal is to develop a suite of easy-to-use modern Python tools that build on community-developed scientific workflows, standards, and libraries to automate model setup, prepare input datasets, store output data, and visualize results using Python-based user interfaces such as Jupyter Notebooks.
 
 ## Example applications