Purpose: | Water policy support system. |
Developer: | Kings College, London; AmbioTEK |
Key Features: | Processing performed in cloud; GIS data provided; visualization |
Latest Release: | Version 2. [.92] |
OS Platform: | Web based |
Cost: | Free, subscription license |
WaterWorld is a fully distributed physically based hydrologic, model that is utilized as a policy/ support system especially in un-gauged and or data poor environments. The program incorporates a water quality model and a sediment transport model. More specifically, the program computes a hydrological baseline and is then compared to a potential scenario. Hydrologic computations use the water balance equation. WaterWorld can been applied to determine the hydrologic change from climate change, land use change, hillslope erosion, human impact on water quality, land management decisions, and the impact of population and demography as well as any combination of these as well as perform.
WaterWorld key features such as the ability to use cloud computing, freely available dataset when data is not available, rapid learning time, process results within 1-hour and the ability to download the output data. The program offers different level of functionality which is based on tiered based pricing.
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Africa | East Asia and the Pacific | Europe & Central Asia | Latin America & the Caribbean | Middle East and North Africa | South Asia |
Kenya (Management Decisions) | Ecuador (Climate Change on Hydropower) | Nepal (Land Management Decision) |
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