REFDSS
Riverine Environmental Flow Decision Support System
The Riverine Environmental Flow Decision Support System (REFDDS) is a hydrologic and ecosystem processes watershed model designed for decision maker support in the Delaware River Basin.
- Developer
- USGS
- Model Information
- For more information about this model, go to pubs.usgs.gov
- Spatial Resolution
- Model designed for the Delaware River basin. Model is GIS based and uses a small grid scale for habitat analysis. River reaches are defined for river system analysis.
- Temporal Resolution
- Time steps are daily to yearly. Results are recorded at multi-year intervals to look at long run changes.
- Outputs
- Outputs include habitat suitability, other ecosystem analyses, and watershed flows and hydrographs.
- Intended User
- practitioner
- Model Type
- watershed
- Inclusion of Climate Change
- If climate change conditions can be captured is unknown. Climate impacts are the not the primary focus of the model.
- Geographic Region
- Delaware River Basin
- Data Requirements
- some data sets built in
- Source Code Availability
- closed source
- Dimensions
- not applicable
- Computational Burden
- medium
- Scenario Modeling
- scenarios by hand only
- Coding Language
- GUI
- Operating System
- windows
- Mathematical Approach
- spatial analysis, statistical
- Maintenance Plan
- not supported
- Date of Last Known Update
- not available
- User Manual
- go to documentation at s3.amazonaws.com
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