A new application called the RiverWare Interactive Scenario Explorer (RiverWISE) is now available. RiverWISE will allow stakeholders to view an exported version of a RiverWare model and to explore alternative scenarios within constraints specified by the model developer. Documentation is available RiverWISE User Roles in RiverWISE Model Developer’s Guide.

A typical scenario exploration process consists of activities involving a model developer and a stakeholder. The process begins within RiverWare, with a model developer exporting a RiverWISE file that contains a model description, results from a baseline run of that model, a list of the slots whose values will be visible from within RiverWISE, and a list of the slots whose values can be changed from within RiverWISE. The developer provides the RiverWISE file to a stakeholder.

The stakeholder must download and install RiverWISE and obtain a free RiverWISE license, which is available on the RiverWare.org website (site coming soon). Once the stakeholder has opened the RiverWISE file, she can

The stakeholder could then provide the developer with feedback on the baseline model including the scenarios she developed.

Following is a screenshot of the results tab showing results for two scenarios: