Tools
Reservoir Conservation Model RESCON 2 Beta
Nikolaos P. Efthymiou, Sebastian Palt, George W. Annandale, Pravin Karki. Reservoir Conservation Model Rescon 2 Beta. Economic and Engineering Evaluation of Alternative Sediment Management Strategies. User Manual. Washington, DC: World Bank. License: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0 IGO
The Reservoir Conservation Model RESCON 2 Beta tool presents the most advanced economic and engineering evaluation of alternative sediment management strategies. It builds on the Reservoir Conservation Model (RESCON) Approach published in 2003 which helps hydropower developers to carry out a preliminary screening analysis of viable sediment management alternatives. The upgrade to the RESCON 2 beta tool takes into consideration sustainability factors and hydrological uncertainties associated with climate change.
CASCADE (CAtchment Sediment Connectivity And DElivery) Toolbox
CASCADE is a modelling framework for sediment transport and connectivity in large rivers developed at Politecnico di Milano by the Environmental Intelligence team, in collaboration with UC Berkeley. The CASCADE toolbox is an open source MATLAB™ toolbox for the application of CASCADE. The toolbox allows for the integration of dams and barriers as well as external sediment contribution to the network. Applications include impact assessment of dam portfolios, identification of dominant sources of sediment, or visualizing basin-scale sediment connectivity under alternative sediment management strategies. The toolbox is equipped with interactive visualization tools for displaying the model outputs and exploring the alteration caused by disturbances.
HYDROPOWER SECTOR CLIMATE RESILIENCE GUIDE
International Hydropower Association, 2019. Hydropower Sector Climate Resilience Guide. London, United Kingdom
The Hydropower Sector Climate Resilience Guide offers a methodology for identifying, assessing and managing climate risks to enhance the resilience of hydropower projects.
The guide responds to the need for international industry good practice on how to incorporate climate resilience into hydropower project planning, design and operations. It seeks to evolve from the default use of historical data and the assumption that hydrological variability will remain the same over the lifetime of a project. The guide also addresses how best to access, use and interpret climate change modelling and observed climate data.
The Hydropower Sector Climate Resilience Guide was developed with the financial and technical support of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank Group and its Korea Green Growth Trust Fund.
BASEMENT: A freeware simulation tool for hydro- and morphodynamic modelling
The application of numerical modelling tools to river engineering problems is a well established methodology. For that purpose, the numerical software BASEMENT for simulation of hydro- and morphodynamics is developed and is available free of charge - also for commercial use. The main motivation for development of the software is to provide an powerful user-friendly tool that facilitates basic applications for practitioners as well as advanced model configuration for research. The numerical simulation software BASEMENT is developed at the Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW) of the ETH Zürich.
BASEGRAIN
BASEGRAIN is a MATLAB-based automatic object detection software tool for granulometric analysis of top-view photographs of fluvial gravel beds.
BASEGRAIN is handled via a graphical user interface (GUI), which enables post- and preprocessing as well. A quasi grain size distribution is calculated following Fehr’s line-sampling method (VAW, 1987). Alternatively, a quasi grain size distribution can be derived by using information of each separated grains area and the related a- and b-axis. In case geotagged photographs are analysed, georeferencing is done automatically. Results are exported to EXCEL-file and GIS-file formats.
BASEGRAIN is developed at the River Engineering division of the Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) at Zurich, Switzerland.
BASEGRAIN is distributed over the Internet in binary form (the source code remains closed). It is available at no charge.