SPARROW (SPAtially Referenced Regressions On Watershed attributes) is a watershed modeling technique for relating water-quality measurements made at a network of monitoring stations to attributes of the watersheds such as contaminant sources and environmental factors that affect rates of delivery to streams and in-stream processing. The core of the model consists of a nonlinear regression… Read More →
Watershed Management Optimization Support Tool (WMOST)
The Watershed Management Optimization Support Tool (WMOST) is a decision support tool that facilitates integrated water management at the local or small watershed scale. WMOST models the environmental effects and costs of management decisions in a watershed context that is, accounting for the direct and indirect effects of decisions. WMOST is intended to be a screening… Read More →
MIKE BASIN
MIKE BASIN is a general multi-purpose river network model for river basin management and planning. The model uses ArcView GIS as Graphical User Interface, and fully utilizing a number of GIS procedures, including catchment delineation etc. The purpose of MIKE BASIN is the simulation of natural inflows, multiple multipurpose reservoir operation and water right allocation in river basins based… Read More →
Water Resource Integrated Modeling System
Water Resource Integrated Modeling System (WRIMS model engine or WRIMS) (formally named CALSIM) is a generalized water resources modeling system for evaluating operational alternatives of large, complex river basins. WRIMS integrates a simulation language for flexible operational criteria specification, a linear programming solver for efficient water allocation decisions, and graphics capabilities for ease of use…. Read More →
MODSIM
MODSIM is a comprehensive, generalized river basin management decision support system (DSS) under continuous development and enhancement since 1979 at Colorado State University. MODSIM is designed to be flexible and robust, allowing a wide range of analyses from short-term daily operations requiring hydrologic flow routing to long-term monthly river basin planning and management. MODSIM is capable of modeling large-scale river basin… Read More →
RiverWare
RiverWare® is a general river and reservoir modeling tool for operational scheduling and forecasting, planning, policy evaluation, and other operational analysis and decision processes. RiverWare has the capability to model: (1) Hydrology and hydrologic processes of reservoirs, river reaches, diversions, distribution canals, consumptive uses, shallow groundwater interaction and conjunctive use; (2) Hydropower production and energy uses; and (3) Water rights, water ownership,… Read More →
The Water Rights Analysis Package (WRAP)
The WRAP modeling system simulates water resources development, management, regulation, and use in a river basin or multiple-basin region under a priority-based water allocation system. The model facilitates assessments of hydrologic and institutional water availability and reliability in satisfying requirements for municipal, industrial, and agricultural water supply, hydroelectric energy generation, environmental instream flows, and reservoir storage. In WRAP terminology, water… Read More →