Quality Assurance Models & Datasets WENR-WOT: WI0021 Version 1.0

ESG provides nature based solutions that are evidence based. Therefore, reliable models and databases are of high importance for us as Science Group and for all researchers working at ESG. Models & datasets play an important role in the research that WENR and WOT perform for clients. The importance of quality assurance of models and datasets has been indicated by Jansen et al. (2004). A translation of these suggestions into an audit process has been described by Houweling et al. (2015). Below a description of the practice of quality assurance for models and datasets as implemented in 2020.