About
The GLORY (GLObal Reservoir Yield) model is an open-source Python package designed to optimize water yield for a given reservoir storage capacity while also estimating the economic value of water supply for global river basins. GLORY was built at the Joint Global Change Research Institute at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
The key functions of GLORY are as follows:
Utilize a linear programming (LP)-based algorithm to maximizes annual water yield by considering a monthly reservoir water balance that accounts for inflow, surface water evaporation, reservoir release, environmental flow, return flow, and spills.
Calculate the cost of constructing reservoirs and the prices of water at different reservoir expansion stages across global basins.
The GLORY model streamlines workflows by integrating information on climate, hydrology, water demand, reservoir exploitable potential, and physiography to estimate the water availability and prices of water supply from reservoirs. GLORY identifies the sub-annual regulation capability and associated investment of reservoirs and establishes boundary conditions for basin-level analysis on reservoir management.
Date: Jul 08, 2024 | Version: 0.1.0
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