WEAP
{{Short description|Water resource modelling software}}
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WEAP (the Water Evaluation and Planning system) is a model-building tool for water resource planning and policy analysis{{Cite web |title=WEAP |url=https://www.sei.org/projects-and-tools/tools/weap/ |access-date=2022-04-08 |website=SEI |language=en-GB}} that is distributed at no charge to non-profit, academic, and governmental organizations in developing countries.
WEAP is used to create simulations of water demand, supply, runoff, evapotranspiration, water allocation, infiltration, crop irrigation requirements, instream flow requirements, ecosystem services, groundwater and surface storage, reservoir operations, pollution generation, treatment, discharge, and instream water quality. The simulations can be created under scenarios of varying policy, hydrology, climate, land use, technology, and socio-economic factors.{{Cite web |title=Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) System {{!}} U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit |url=https://toolkit.climate.gov/tool/water-evaluation-and-planning-weap-system |access-date=2022-04-08 |website=toolkit.climate.gov}} WEAP links to the USGS MODFLOW groundwater flow model and the US EPA QUAL2K surface water quality model.
WEAP was created in 1988 and continues to be developed and supported by the U.S. center of the Stockholm Environment Institute, a non-profit research institute based at Tufts University in Somerville, Massachusetts. It is used for climate change vulnerability studies and adaptation planning and has been applied by researchers and planners in thousands of organizations worldwide.
Establishing the ‘current accounts’ and building scenarios and evaluating the scenarios about criteria are the main WEAP applications in Simulation problems.{{Cite journal |last1=Mounir |first1=Zakari Mahamadou |last2=Ma |first2=Chuan Ming |last3=Amadou |first3=Issoufou |date=2011-01-19 |title=Application of Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP): A Model to Assess Future Water Demands in the Niger River (In Niger Republic) |journal=Modern Applied Science |volume=5 |issue=1 |doi=10.5539/mas.v5n1p38 |issn=1913-1852|doi-access=free }}
References
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= Further reading =
- {{cite web|last=Sieber|first=J.|url=https://www.weap21.org/index.asp?action=219|title=WEAP History and Credits|website=WEAP Website|access-date=August 14, 2020}}
- {{cite journal|author1=Matchett, E.L.|author2=Fleskes, J.P.|author3=Young, C.A.|author4=Purkey, D.R.|url=http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2015/1017/|date=2015|title=A framework for modeling anthropogenic impacts on waterbird habits—Addressing future uncertainty in conservation planning|journal=U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2015-1017|pages=1-40|doi=10.3133/ofr20151017|issn=2331-1258}}
- {{cite journal|first1=G. Sanchez-Torres|last1=Esqueda|author2= J. E. Ospina-Noreña|author3=C. Gay-García|author4=C. Conde|url=http://www.atmosfera.unam.mx/editorial/atmosfera/acervo/vol_24_1/resumen_9.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150618010510/http://www.atmosfera.unam.mx/editorial/atmosfera/acervo/vol_24_1/resumen_9.html|archive-date=2015-06-18|title=Vulnerability of water resources to climate change scenarios. Impacts on the irrigation districts in the Guayalejo-Tamesí river basin, Tamaulipas, México|journal=Atmósfera|volume=24|date=January 2011|pages=141–155}}
- {{cite journal|last1=Purkey|first1=D.R.|last2=Joyce|first2=B.|last3=Vicuna|first3=S.|last4=Hanemann|first4=M.W.|last5=Dale|first5=L.L.|last6=Yates|first6=D.|last7=Dracup|first7=J.A.|url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-007-9375-8|title=Robust analysis of future climate change impacts on water for agriculture and other sectors: a case study in the Sacramento Valley|journal=Climatic Change|volume=87|pages=109–122|doi=10.1007/s10584-007-9375-8|date=March 2008}}
- {{cite journal|last1=Purkey|first1=David R.|last2=Huber-Lee|first2=Annette|last3=Yates|first3=David N.|last4=Hanemann|first4=Michael|last5=Herrod-Julius|first5=Susan|url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11269-006-9055-x|title=Integrating a Climate Change Assessment Tool into Stakeholder-Driven Water Management Decision-Making Processes in California|journal=Water Resources Management|volume=21|date=January 2007|pages=315–329|doi=10.1007/s11269-006-9055-x}}
- {{cite journal|last1=Vogel|first1=Richard M.|last2=Sieber|first2=Jack|last3=Archfield|first3=Stacey A.|last4=Smith|first4=Mark P.|last5=Apse|first5=Colin D.|last6=Huber-Lee|first6=Annette|url=https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2006WR005226|title=Relations among storage, yield and instream flow|journal=Water Resources Research|volume=43|date=May 2007|doi=10.1029/2006WR005226}}
- {{cite journal|last1=Yates|first1=David|last2=Sieber|first2=Jack|last3=Purkey|first3=David|last4=Huber-Lee|first4=Annette|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02508060508691893|title=WEAP21: A Demand-, Priority-, and Preference-Driven Water Planning Model, Part 1: Model Characteristics|journal=Water International|volume=30|pages=487-500|date=December 2005|doi=10.1080/02508060508691893}}
- {{cite journal|author1=Lévite, H.|author2=Sally, H.|author3=Cour, J.|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1474706503001414|title=Water demand management scenarios in a water-stressed basin in South Africa: application of the WEAP model|journal=Physics and Chemistry of the Earth|volume=28|date=2003|pages=779–786|doi=10.1016/j.pce.2003.08.025}}
External links
- {{official website|https://www.weap21.org/}}
- [https://www.sei.org/us Stockholm Environment Institute-U.S. Center]
- [https://www.sei.org Main SEI website]
- [https://www.tufts.edu Tufts University]
Category:Integrated hydrologic modelling