WADITI - developing a roadmap for a water quality digital twin. A scoping study under UK-SCAPE

In this study, we develop a roadmap for a surface water quality digital twin, to
provide now-casting and short-term forecasting of a range of environmental
pollutants and ecosystem states in both rivers and lakes. Although shorter-term
dynamics are our focus, we note that digital twins can be applied to longer-term
system behaviour as well. Our aim was to integrate numerous aspects of water quality and UKCEH expertise in monitoring networks, data science, hydrological
and water quality, and river and lake ecosystem modelling. Thus, we reviewed
current data streams, available models, and data science approaches. We built
upon the existing body of work that considers how best to conceptualise
environmental digital twins.