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All Topics | Topic "How to use climate and land use change projection in evaluating water budget in WEAP?"
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Dr. Sathaporn Monprapussorn

Subject: How to use climate and land use change projection in evaluating water budget in WEAP?   
Posted: 4/16/2017 Viewed: 12019 times
I have projected monthly average, maximum and minimum temperature in 2050. Land use in 2050 (5 classes; urban, forest, water, agriculture and miscellaneous) has also been projected. I am wondering to know that how to use future climate and land use data to derive water budget in WEAP? Is there any model in WEAP to do that?

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Ms. Stephanie Galaitsi

Subject: Re: How to use climate and land use change projection in evaluating water budget in WEAP?   
Posted: 4/17/2017 Viewed: 11943 times
Dear Sathaporn,

The only way to input climatic data into WEAP to generate water production is by using a catchment. You will need to selected one of five models (the soil moisture model uses temperature as one of its parameters, so that might be a good candidate). However, you will need information in addition to the temperature, such as any anticipated precipitation changes.

The WEAP tutorial (www.WEAP21.org/tutorial) has a section on hydrological modeling using catchments in the module "Hydrology." That provides a good introduction to using catchments.
Topic "How to use climate and land use change projection in evaluating water budget in WEAP?"