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By Edith A. Zagona, Terrance J. Fulp, Richard Shane, Timothy Magee, and
H. Morgan Goranflo, Published in the Journal of the American Water Resources
Association, August 2001.
Abstract: Water management agencies seek the next generation of
modeling tools for planning and operating river basins. Previous site-specific
models such as the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's (USBR) Colorado River Simulation
System and Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) Daily Scheduling Model have
become obsolete; however, new models are difficult and expensive to develop
and maintain. Previous generalized river basin modeling tools are limited
in their ability to represent diverse physical system and operating policy
details for a wide range of applications. RiverWare(tm), a new generalized
river basin modeling tool, provides a construction kit for developing and
running detailed, site-specific models without the need to develop or maintain
the supporting software within the water management agency. It includes
an extensible library of modeling algorithms, several solvers, and a rich
"language" for the expression of operating policy. Its point-and-click
graphical interface facilitates model construction and execution, and communication
of policies, assumptions and results to others. Applications developed
and used by the TVA and USBR demonstrate that a wide range of operational
and planning problems on widely varying basins can be resolved using this
tool.
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