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The ELM simulation effectively changes in stage and surface water quality throughout most of the Everglades, spanning a large, heterogeneous, region across 17 years of widely varying environmental inputs: The ELM simulation effectively changes in stage and surface water quality throughout most of the Everglades, spanning a large, heterogeneous, region across 17 years of widely varying environmental inputs. Simulated stage data at >40 monitoring points are generally consistent with field observations and with the SFWMM calibration/verification runs. Simulated surface water TP concentration data at >40 monitoring points are generally consistent with field observations during the time periods that such observed data are available.

• Hydrology:

  • Two examples of simulated stage in long and short hydroperiod locations.

  • Statistical summaries of the model fit to field observations for the simulation period.

  • The 17-yr mean water depth pattern from ELM and SFWMM v.3.5 simulations.

   
  

• Water quality:

  • Two examples of model-observed TP concentrations in northern (source-proximate) and southern (source distant) locations.

  • Examples of variability plots of model-observed TP concentrations in northern (source-proximate) and southern (source distant) locations.

  • The 17-yr mean surface water TP distribution pattern captured by the dynamics of surface water transport of phosphorus and internal cycling within the soils and water column.