Jack Sieber

TL;DR: The WEAP21 model extends the previous WEAP model by introducing the concept of demand priorities and supply preferences, which are used in a linear programming heuristic to solve the water allocation problem as an alternative to multi-criteria weighting or rule-based logic approaches.

TL;DR: The Water Evaluation and Planning model version 21 (WEAP21) is a comprehensive integrated water resource management (IWRM) model that can aid in the evaluation of ecosystem services by integrating natural watershed processes with socioeconomic elements that include the infrastructure and institutions that govern the allocation of available freshwater supplies.

TL;DR: In this paper, a generalized water evaluation and planning model (WEAP) is proposed to enable general explorations of relations between reservoir storage, instream flow, and water supply yield for a wide class of reservoirs and operating rules.

TL;DR: This introduction summarizes WEAP’s purpose, approach and structure and provides a comprehensive, flexible and user-friendly framework for policy analysis.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the available cold pool behind Shasta could be maintained throughout the summer assuming median projections of mid-21st century warming of 2°C, but the maintenance of the cold pool with warming on the order of 4°C could be very challenging.