Klamath River Basin
This federal organization allocates and manages water rights and infrastructure for irrigation in the Western United States.
What is the United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR)?
A modeling scale that evaluates how water managed in one area impacts other water resources stakeholders.
What is spatial scale?
This term describes a process undertaken to evaluate and potentially adjust a model parameter to make sure it is accurate and matches with real life data and information.
What is calibration?
Systems focus or orientation, interdisciplinary stakeholder team, formal mathematics or algorithms for unambiguous record, well-defined planning and management objectives, and accurate estimates of impacts all describe this...
What is model success?
The four main categories of performance criteria that are used in water resources planning and management.
What are economic, environmental, ecological, and social?
This federal organization supports municipal water supply planning projects with technical expertise and funding? Please list full name and acronym.
United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)?
A planning scale that is a continuing iterative process and is responsive/adaptive to changes in needs and opportunities over time.
What is temporal?
This type of model evaluation looks at how analysis was performed and presented
What is analysis success?
The process of assigning values to each of the relevant decision variables. This starts with specifying the issue, problem, or decision to be made.
What is plan formulation?
Calculus, hill climbing, and Lagrange are all this type of optimization model.
What are non-linear optimization models?
The Klamath River provides habitat for three Endangered Species Act Fish.
What are the Lost River Sucker, Shortnose Sucker, and Coho Salmon?
What is top-down management?
This type of model evaluation looks at how it was used in the management and planning process.
What is application success?
The process of evaluating alternative plans and choosing the best plan that satisfies objectives. This is oftentimes an optimization procedure.
What is plan selection?
This type of analysis should always be performed when selecting between alternatives, and presented in present value terms?
What is an economic cost/benefit analysis?
Two of the four dams scheduled to be decommissioned and demolished on the Klamath River
What are the J.C Boyle, Copco No. 1, Copco No. 2, and Iron Gate Dams?
The water resources planning and management approach that is more grass-roots and stakeholder driven, where consensus and cooperation are achieved.
What is bottom-up management?
This type of model evaluation assess how data and information derived from the model have affected system design or operation in the lives of the users.
What is outcome success?
Prior to selection and development of a quantitative model, it is useful to set up this type of non-quantitative representative of a system. Once this type of model is quantified and is calibrated, validated, and verified, it becomes a mathematical model.
What is conceptual model development.
This type of programming is most commonly used water resources - many water resources systems meet the conditions of this optimization algorithm.
What is linear programming?
The United States federal agency that regulates the transmission and wholesale sale of electricity and regulates hydropower dams.
What is the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)?
Predicts the performance of a system, infrastructure designs, or management policies. Impact prediction is the primary goal.
What is modeling?
The word used to describe variables in a model that are assigned known values
What are parameters?
What are optimization methods
The regulatory term in the U.S. Clean Water Act, describing a plan for restoring impaired waters that identifies the maximum amount of a pollutant that a body of water can receive while still meeting water quality standards.
What is Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL)?