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Technical Description of OVERSEER for Regional Councils - 2015

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This report (Watkins N and Selbie D) was prepared for Bay of Plenty Regional Council. The aim of this report is to provide a high-level summary of OVERSEER in terms of; what OVERSEER is, how it works, key inputs and outputs, history, a description of the nitrogen and phosphorus sub-models, scale and limitations, key assumptions, model uncertainty and sensitivity of outputs to inputs.
The objectives of this report are:
1) To provide regional council users of OVERSEER with a simple description of the
model, including what it can do, and its outputs, assumptions and limitations.
2) To inform the development of guidance material for regional councils on the
appropriate use of OVERSEER in policy, regulation, compliance and advice.