HR: 1340h
AN: H33D-0502    [Abstracts]
TI: The Watershed and River Systems Management Program: Decision Support for Water- and Environmental-Resource Management
AU: * Leavesley, G
EM: george@usgs.gov
AF: U.S. Geological Survey, Box 25046, MS 412, DFC, Denver, CO 80225
AU: Markstrom, S
EM: markstro@usgs.gov
AF: U.S. Geological Survey, Box 25046, MS 412, DFC, Denver, CO 80225
AU: Frevert, D
EM: dfrevert@do.usbr.gov
AF: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Technical Service Center, Denver, CO 80225
AU: Fulp, T
EM: tfulp@lc.usbr.gov
AF: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Boulder Canyon Operations Office, Boulder City, NV 89005
AU: Zagona, E
EM: zagona@cadswes.colorado.edu
AF: University of Colorado, Center for Advanced Decision Support for Water and Environmental Systems, Boulder, CO 80309-0421
AU: Viger, R
EM: rviger@usgs.gov
AF: U.S. Geological Survey, Box 25046, MS 412, DFC, Denver, CO 80225
AB: Increasing demands for limited fresh-water supplies, and increasing complexity of water-management issues, present the water-resource manager with the difficult task of achieving an equitable balance of water allocation among a diverse group of water users. The Watershed and River System Management Program (WARSMP) is a cooperative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) to develop and deploy a database-centered, decision-support system (DSS) to address these multi-objective, resource-management problems. The decision-support system couples the USGS Modular Modeling System (MMS) with the BOR RiverWare tools using a shared relational database. MMS is an integrated system of computer software that provides a research and operational framework to support the development and integration of a wide variety of hydrologic and ecosystem models, and their application to water- and ecosystem-resource management. RiverWare is an object-oriented reservoir and river-system modeling framework developed to provide tools for evaluating and applying water-allocation and management strategies. The modeling capabilities of MMS and Riverware include simulating watershed runoff, reservoir inflows, and the impacts of resource-management decisions on municipal, agricultural, and industrial water users, environmental concerns, power generation, and recreational interests. Forecasts of future climatic conditions are a key component in the application of MMS models to resource-management decisions. Forecast methods applied in MMS include a modified version of the National Weather Service's Extended Streamflow Prediction Program (ESP) and statistical downscaling from atmospheric models. The WARSMP DSS is currently operational in the Gunnison River Basin, Colorado; Yakima River Basin, Washington; Rio Grande Basin in Colorado and New Mexico; and Truckee River Basin in California and Nevada.
UR: http://www.usbr.gov/pmts/rivers/warsmp/
DE: 1833 Hydroclimatology
DE: 1857 Reservoirs (surface)
DE: 1860 Runoff and streamflow
DE: 1884 Water supply
SC: Hydrology [H]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting