Energy and Environment

Center for Advanced Decision Supprt for Water and Environmental Systems (CADSWES), continued

RiverWare is a modeling tool that provides simulation and optimization solutions for operational scheduling and planning of multi-objective river and reservoir systems. It is used in operational decision-making to balance objectives such as flood control, water supply, water rights, hydropower, navigation, recreation, water quality, and riparian habitat. RiverWare is currently being used throughout the United States and internationally by water management agencies, consultants and researchers for scheduling of reservoir and hydropower, design of new facilities, environmental impact studies and operational policy studies. CADSWES provides training and user support as well as continued new development of this innovative tool.

The Hydrologic Database, used in conjunction with RiverWare, is a series of integrated relational databases supporting real-time data telemetry, daily river operations, basin scheduling and long-term river basin planning throughout eight western states. In addition to design, development, implementation, and support of the databases, CADSWES is applying new software technologies to develop generalized data transfer protocols for transferring data between databases and accessing the data through web-based tools.

http://cadswes.colorado.edu