WaterGAP (Water Global Assessment and Prognosis)

Contact person

Martina Flörke

Description

WaterGAP is a global hydrological model that quantifies human use of groundwater and surface water as well as water flows and water storage and thus water re- sources on all land areas of the Earth. Since 1996, it has served to assess water resources and water stress both historically and in the future. It has been used in multiple studies on climate change impacts and drought and includes an advanced estimation of groundwater recharge. WaterGAP simulations regularly contribute to ISIMIP simulation rounds.

Attention: The WaterGAP software is currently reprogrammed in Python

Model(s)

WaterGAP v2.2 :GNU GPL v3.0

Programming language(s)

C
C++

Related sub-processes

• groundwater flow

• surface water flow

• human water use

• droughts

• floods

• water storage

Related project(s)

• ISIMIP

• ReWaterGAP

• GlobalCDA

• CO-MICC

• DRYvER

Literature and Links

• WaterGAP on GitHub

• WaterGAP website

• WaterGAP in Wikipedia

• WaterGAP3 @ Ruhr University Bochum

• Müller Schmied, H., Cáceres, D., Eisner, S., Flörke, M., Herbert, C., Niemann, C., Peiris, T. A., Popat, E., Portmann, F. T., Reinecke, R., Schumacher, M., Shadkam, S., Telteu, C.-E., Trautmann, T., Döll, P.(2021): The global water resources and use model WaterGAP v2.2d: Model description and evaluation. Geosci. Model Dev., 14, 1037–1079

Tags

#optional #land #impact model #impacts #water ressources #human water use #drought #groundwater #hydrology #isimip #rewatergap #globalcda #co-micc #dryver

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