WMS (hydrology software)

WMS
Developer(s) Aquaveo
Stable release 10.0 / September 16, 2015
Operating system Windows
Type Surface-water hydrology software
License Proprietary
Website http://www.aquaveo.com/wms

WMS (Watershed Modeling System) is a complete program for developing watershed computer simulations. WMS supports lumped parameter, regression, and 2D hydrologic modeling of watersheds, and can be used to model both water quantity and water quality. It also supports river hydraulic and storm drain models. Currently supported models include HEC-1, HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS, TR-20, TR-55, NFF, Rational, MODRAT, HSPF, CE-QUAL-W2, GSSHA, SMPDBK, and other models.

History

WMS was initially developed by the Engineering Computer Graphics Laboratory at Brigham Young University in the early 1990s on Unix workstations. The development of WMS was funded primarily by The United States Army Corps of Engineers. It was later ported to Windows platforms in the mid 1990s. WMS 6.0 (2002) was the last supported version for HP-UX, IRIX, OSF/1, and Solaris platforms. Development of WMS was done by the Environmental Modeling Research Laboratory (EMRL) at Brigham Young University until April, 2007. At this time, the main software development team at EMRL entered private enterprise as Aquaveo, LLC.

The planners of the 2002 Winter Olympics, held in Salt Lake City, Utah, used the Watershed Modeling System (WMS) software to simulate terrorist attacks on water infrastructure such as the Jordanelle Reservoir.[1]

Examples of WMS Implementation

References

  1. Chai, Nathan K. (Fall 2002). "Modeling the World’s Waters". BYU Magazine. Archived from the original on 25 February 2016. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
  2. Sadrolashrafi, S.S.; et al. (2008). "Integrated Modeling for Flood Hazard Mapping Using Watershed Modeling System.". American Journal of Engineering and Applied Science 1: 149–156. doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2008.149.156.
  3. Edsel, B.D.; et al. (2011). "Watershed Modeling and its Applications: A State-of-the-Art Review" (PDF). The Open Hydrology Journal 5: 26–50.
  4. Hossam, H.E.; Qaddah, A.A. (May 2011). "Groundwater potentiality mapping in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, using remote sensing and GIS-watershed-based modeling". Hydrogeology Journal 19 (3): 613–628. doi:10.1007/s10040-011-0703-8.
  5. Mustafa, Y.M.; et al. (Fall 2012). "Evaluation of Land Development Impact on a tropical Watershed Hydrology Using Remote Sensing and GIS". Journal of Spatial Hydrology 5 (2): 16–30.
  6. Al-Ansari, N.; et al. (Dec 2013). "Water Harvesting and Reservoir Optimization in Selected Areas of South Sinjar Mountain, Iraq". Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 18 (12): 1607–1616. doi:10.1061/(asce)he.1943-5584.0000712.

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