Water Energy Simulation Toolset

Software · Wed May 17 00:00:00 EDT 2017

OSTI ID:1389747

Nguyen, Thuy ^[1]; Jeffers, Robert ^[1]

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1. Idaho National Laboratory

The Water-Energy Simulation Toolset (WEST) is an interactive simulation model that helps visualize impacts of different stakeholders on water quantity and quality of a watershed. The case study is applied for the Snake River Basin with the fictional name Cutthroat River Basin. There are four groups of stakeholders of interest: hydropower, agriculture, flood control, and environmental protection. Currently, the quality component depicts nitrogen-nitrate contaminant. Users can easily interact with the model by changing certain inputs (climate change, fertilizer inputs, etc.) to observe the change over the entire system. Users can also change certain parameters to test their management policy.

• Short Name / Acronym: WEST; 005433IBMPC00
• Project Type: Copyright 2017 Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
• Site Accession Number: Revision 2.0
• Version: 00
• Programming Language(s): Medium: X; OS: Microsoft® Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Vista, or XP with ServicePack 2
• Research Organization: Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-05ID14517
• OSTI ID: 1389747
• Country of Origin: United States