Water Balance Model User's Guide

Abstract

The combination of shortsighted planning and Global Climate Change (GCC) has resulted in an imbalance in U.S. freshwater resources, (e.g., too much water in some regions and not enough in others). Better information on how GCC will affect different regions in the United States is needed to guide the U.S. Army in making effective decisions on how to properly adapt. This model attempts to predict how the balance of freshwater resources is likely to shift as a result of GCC by calculating those shifts based on several climate scenarios for various Department of Defense (DoD) installations. This document describes the process of executing the Water Balance Model, as it exists at the time of this writing, within the common computational environment established under the software integration effort of the Integrated Climate Assessment for Army Enterprise Planning work package.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 26, 2019
Accession Number
AD1077533

Entities

People

  • Byron M. Garton

Organizations

  • Engineer Research and Development Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Climate Change
  • Computational Science
  • Data Processing
  • Data Sets
  • Databases
  • Department Of Defense
  • Ecology
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Environment
  • Information Systems
  • Natural Resources
  • United States
  • Water
  • Water Resources
  • Water Supplies

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Economics
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.