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Recent Releases of BASINS

BASINS - HSPEXP+ 3.2 release candidate

HSPEXP+3.2 contains the newest enhancements for HSPEXP+. This release includes segmentation options for WASP model setup including benthic segments. additional constituent balance reports for ortho phosphorus, tkn, nitrite-nitrate, and total ammonia, and complete documentation of additional constituent balance reports in Appendix A.

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by PaulDudaRESPEC about 4 years ago

BASINS - HSPF 12.5 Plugin for BASINS 4.5 -- July 2020

This package installs HSPF v12.5 and WinHSPF v3.1, along with the BASINS model setup plugin for HSPF. It is intended for installation on top of the BASINS 4.5 Core.

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by PaulDudaRESPEC almost 5 years ago

BASINS - HSPF 12.5 Plugin for BASINS 4.5 -- June 2020

This package installs HSPF v12.5 and WinHSPF v3.1, along with the BASINS model setup plugin for HSPF. It is intended for installation on top of the BASINS 4.5 Core.

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by PaulDudaRESPEC almost 5 years ago

BASINS - HSPEXP+ 3.1 beta2

HSPEXP+3.1 beta 2 contains the newest enhancements for HSPEXP+. This release includes extended documentation for the constituent balance reports in Appendix A, along with a first draft of statistics and advice for SNOW calibration. It also includes enhanced setup for WASP, writing the WASP8 version of the WASP input file.

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by PaulDudaRESPEC about 5 years ago

BASINS - USGS HydroToolbox 1.0

This version is the integrated groundwater and surface water hydrologic toolbox. The various analyses are grouped into legacy tools, GW tools, SW tools, and general time series tools in the menu for better organization. The Run R program is updated to work with the latest R software.

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by TongZhai about 5 years ago

BASINS - Surface Water Toolbox 1.0.5

This version updates the frequency and N day analyses to use the conditional probability adjusted statistics in both IDF and the legacy DFLOW program.

This version also contains updated Run R program that can work with the latest R software. The R.NET library is updated to search for R installation info from registry more thoroughly. Should the Run R program fail to find installed R software, a 'R_HOME' environment path variable can be created to point to a custom installed R on a user's system (for example: C:\Users\john.doe\Documents\R\R-3.6.2)

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by TongZhai about 5 years ago

BASINS - HSPEXP+ 3.1 beta1

HSPEXP+3.1 beta 1 contains the newest enhancements for HSPEXP+. This release includes extended documentation for the constituent balance reports in Appendix A, along with a first draft of statistics and advice for SNOW calibration.

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by PaulDudaRESPEC over 5 years ago

BASINS - HSPEXP+ 3.0 Release Candidate 3

HSPEXP+3.0 is the latest version of HSPEXP+.

This version includes a further refined model QA/QC report, plus tools for setting up WASP and BATHTUB receiving water models. Also uses 'subset by date' in Regan plots and Diurnal reports. This update fixes known problems with scatter plots and GQual constituent balance reports.

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by PaulDudaRESPEC over 5 years ago

BASINS - USGS Groundwater Toolbox version 1.3.2

This version has updated data download tool per USGS NWIS security protocol change; this update fixed the issue of missing discharge and daily groundwater stations layers when creating new projects. Also, national HUC8 boundary GIS data layer is updated.

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by TongZhai over 5 years ago

BASINS - BASINS 4.5.1 Core -- August 2019

BASINS 4.5.1 Core, without model plugins.
This release provides access to additional years of NLCD land cover through the Data Download tool.

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by PaulDudaRESPEC over 5 years ago

BASINS - HSPEXP+ 3.0 Release Candidate 2

HSPEXP+3.0 is the latest version of HSPEXP+.

This version includes a further refined model QA/QC report, plus tools for setting up WASP and BATHTUB receiving water models. Also uses 'subset by date' in Regan plots and Diurnal reports.

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by PaulDudaRESPEC almost 6 years ago

BASINS - HSPEXP+ 3.0 Release Candidate 1

HSPEXP+3.0 is the latest version of HSPEXP+.
This version includes a further refined model QA/QC report, plus tools for setting up WASP and BATHTUB receiving water models.

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by PaulDudaRESPEC about 6 years ago

BASINS - HSPF 12.5 Plugin for BASINS 4.5 -- March 2019

This package installs HSPF v12.5 and WinHSPF v3.1, along with the BASINS model setup plugin for HSPF. It is intended for installation on top of the BASINS 4.5 Core

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by PaulDudaRESPEC about 6 years ago

BASINS - BASINS 4.5 Core -- March 2019

BASINS 4.5 Core, without model plugins

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by PaulDudaRESPEC about 6 years ago

BASINS - USGS Surface Water Toolbox version 1.0.4

This release updates the data download tool for version 1.0.3 per USGS NWIS security protocol update

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by TongZhai about 6 years ago

BASINS - HSPEXP+3.0 beta3

Date: 2/1/2019
HSPEXP+3.0 beta3 is the latest beta for the next version of HSPEXP+.
This version includes a further refined model QA/QC report, included for further testing.
Fixes a bug in expert system stats computing percentiles with missing values.

This is a review draft for testing only!

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by PaulDudaRESPEC about 6 years ago

BASINS - HSPEXP+3.0 beta2

Date: 11/19/2018
HSPEXP+3.0 beta2 is the latest beta for the next version of HSPEXP+.
This version includes a further refined model QA/QC report, included for further testing.

This is a review draft for testing only!

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by PaulDudaRESPEC over 6 years ago

BASINS - RESPEC releases HSPEXP+3.0beta

Date: 09/20/2018
HSPEXP+3.0beta is the development version for the next version of HSPEXP+.
Features:

  1. This version includes Model QA/QC report. The model QA/QC report is under development and it must be used with extreme caution.

Bugs Fixed:

  1. The expert statistic calculated the years of simulation as an integer. This skewed calculations for models with very small model span. That has been fixed.
  2. The location of help file was not coded properly in the previous version. That has been fixed.
  3. The reports did not include adsorption/desorption and scour/deposition of TAM and PO4. That has been fixed.
  4. The reports did not output labile and refractory organic P data for impervious areas. That has been fixed.

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by mishranurag over 6 years ago

BASINS - HSPF 12.5 Plugin for BASINS 4.5 -- review draft

This package installs HSPF v12.5 and WinHSPF v3.1, along with the BASINS model setup plugin for HSPF. It is intended for installation on top of the BASINS 4.5 Core.

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by PaulDudaRESPEC over 6 years ago

BASINS - HSPF 12.2 Plugin for BASINS 4.5 -- review draft

This package installs HSPF v12.2 and WinHSPF v3.0, along with the BASINS model setup plugin for HSPF. It is intended for installation on top of the BASINS 4.5 Core.

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by PaulDudaRESPEC over 6 years ago

BASINS - BASINS 4.5 Core -- review draft

Draft of the BASINS 4.5 Core, without model plugins, for EPA review

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by PaulDudaRESPEC almost 7 years ago

BASINS - RESPEC Releases HSPEXP+2.0

Date: 06/15/2018

HSPEXP+2.0 is a major upgrade to HSPEXP+1.32. The following list of features added and bugs fixed for the version 2.0 includes all added features and fixed bugs in the earlier beta versions. The installer is now signed and it tells the users that the installer has been produced by RESPEC. This will reduce the security warnings.

Features:

  1. Multi-Simulation Manager capability was added that can be used to conduct sensitivity analysis, uncertainty analysis, and scenario analysis.
  2. Regan plots were updated to generate daily max and min DO for all the reaches, if hourly DO data is available in WDM or binary files.
  3. The HSPEXP+ Manual is now available as a pdf file for ease of printing.
  4. Reports for additional constituents including Heat, DO, BOD-Labile are also generated.
  5. Reach Budget reports for N and P constituents are also generated.
  6. Some reports are now generated so that they can be easily filtered in spreadsheet program.
  7. Monthly land loading reports are also generated.
  8. Box-whisker plots of constituent loading by land use and box-whisker plots of monthly constituent loadings are also produced.
  9. If GQUAL is simulated, then land loading and reach budget reports for all the GQUAL constituents are available.
  10. If the observed data in WQX format has been filtered using BASINS, that file can be read by HSPEXP+ to generated automated graphs.

Bugs fixed:

  1. If observed flow data is of shorter length than the simulated data then expert statistics and annual graphs were not working properly. That issue has been fixed.
  2. If MASS-LINK block did not have proper connection for constituents, then HSPEXP+ gave error and quit. Now a more useful error is presented.
  3. While making automated graphs, warnings have been moved to the log file.
  4. In some cases, if the GENER operation didn't exist, HSPEXP+ crashed. Fixed.
  5. Some reports were having issues with analysis date. Fixed.
  6. If input PS and model timestep were hourly, point sources were not being calculated. Fixed
  7. Multiple small bugs fixed. In general, the warning messages do not stop HSPEXP+ calculations. The warning messages are added in the log file.

Please keep on submitting issues and feature requests using Github Issues feature.

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by mishranurag almost 7 years ago

BASINS - RESPEC Releases HSPEXP+2.0 beta3

This release is an update to previous beta releases.

Features:

  1. In Multi Simulation Manager, a range of operations can be provided, separated by a hyphen (-).
  2. Draft Manual is now available.

Bugs Fixed

  1. In some cases, if the GENER operation didn't exist, HSPEXP+ crashed. That behavior has been fixed.
  2. Some interface fixes.
  3. Some reports were having issues with analysis date, that has been fixed.
  4. Some reports showed erroneous values when operations didn't have any reach connections. That has been fixed.

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by mishranurag about 7 years ago

BASINS - RESPEC Releases HSPEXP+2.0 beta2

This is a minor update to HSPEXP+2.0beta.

HSPEXP+2.0beta2
Date: 03/28/2018

Features:

  1. In Multi Simulation Manager, a range of operations can be provided, separated by hyphen (-).

Bugs Fixed

  1. In some cases, if the GENER operation didn't exist, HSPEXP+ crashed. That behavior has been fixed.
  2. Some interface fixes.
  3. Some reports were having issues, that has been fixed.

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by mishranurag about 7 years ago

BASINS - RESPEC Releases HSPEXP+ 2.0beta

RESPEC is releasing the beta version of HSPEXP+2.0. The features of the new version are described below. Please note that the updated manual will be available with the full release of HSPEXP+2.0.

HSPEXP+2.0.0beta
Date: 03/13/2018
Features:

  1. Multi-Simulation Manager is available that can be used for sensitivity analysis, uncertainty analysis, and scenario analysis.
  2. Reports for additional constituents including Heat, DO, BOD-Labile are also generated.
  3. Reach Budget reports for N and P constituents are also generated.
  4. Some reports are now generated so that they can be easily filtered in spreadsheet program as needed.
  5. Monthly land loading reports are also generated.
  6. Box-whisker plots of constituent loading by land use and box-whisker plots of monthly constituent loadings are also produced.
  7. In the Regan plots, daily maximum and daily minimum DO concentrations are plotted if hourly DO data is available in the binary files.
  8. If GQUAL is simulated, then land loading and reach budget reports for all the GQUAL constituents are available.

Bugs Fixed:

  1. Multiple small bugs fixed. In general, the warning messages do not stop HSPEXP+ calculations. The warning messages are added in the log file.
  2. HSPEXP+ calculations were made more efficient.

Issues:

  1. The help manual is not updated for the beta version.

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by mishranurag about 7 years ago

BASINS - USGS Surface Water Toolbox version 1.0 internal revision 1

Beta testing release of version 1.0, internal revision 1
Documentation needs some updates
Updates to the integrated design flow tool

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by TongZhai almost 8 years ago

BASINS - Sensitivity/Uncertainty Analysis of HSPF Model using HSPEXP+1.40beta

RESPEC releases the beta version of HSPEXP+1.40. This release comes with a capability to conduct multiple simulations if the parameter values are provided in a separate specification file. This capability can be used for sensitivity analysis, Monte Carlo simulations, Generalized Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation (GLUE), testing scenarios etc.

Please go through the warnings and the usage instructions before downloading and using this capability. Feel free to use Github's issue tracker if you have any issues. Do mention the software and the version number in the subject line.

Thanks and happy modeling.

~A

Warnings:

  1. This is a beta version, and it may not work on your computer.
  2. The results have not been tested thoroughly, and it is advised that the users check their result independently.
  3. This option has not been tested for cases where the number of simulations is in the thousands; we are not sure how HSPEXP+ will behave in those cases.
  4. Since this is a beta version, all intermediate UCI files are saved; users are advised to check if the correct parameters were changed.
  5. HSPEXP+1.40beta may not be able to change all the parameters and may give undecipherable errors.
  6. HSPEXP+1.40beta may not be able to change the parameters by land use and operation numbers.
  7. HSPEXP+1.40beta does not actively show a counter of the number of simulations complete.
  8. All the features offered in this version may change, and may not be available in the officially released versions.

Usage:

  1. When a user selects the option for Sensitivity/Uncertainty Analysis for the first time with an HSPF model, HSPEXP+1.40beta generates a sensitivity specification file.
  2. The sensitivity specification file is a comma separated (*.csv) file with the list of DSNs that are analyzed during each simulation, and the list of parameters that are varied for each simulation.
  3. The default sensitivity specification file contains the first three WDM DSNs from the EXT TARGETS block for output analysis.
  4. The default sensitivity specification file contains LZSN and INFILT as the parameters for analysis.
  5. HSPEXP+1.40 beta also copies the DSN in a new WDM file for each simulation for later analysis.

Register as a HSPEXP+ User

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by mishranurag almost 8 years ago

BASINS - Groundwater Toolbox Version 1.3.1

This is a revision of the version 1.3

-bug fixes
-persist temporary analysis time series with project
-SWSTAT trend analysis updates

hosted at official USGS site

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by TongZhai almost 8 years ago

BASINS - USGS Surface Water Toolbox version 1.0

USGS Surface Water Toolbox (SW Toolbox) is a stand-alone Windows application for analysis of hydrologic data. RESPEC Inc developed the software under contract from USGS and EPA. SW Toolbox is built on top of open-source MapWindow GIS software. It streamlines hydrologic data retrieval, processing, management, analysis, and visualization. It is also a full function GIS mapping software for rendering geospatial data.

The main feature of SW Toolbox is the Integrated Design Flow tool that combines the SWSTAT and DFLOW programs. It allows the user to carry out both analysis in one working session.

This software is officially hosted at USGS SW Toolbox site. This release is for internal evaluation only, it is not officially released yet by USGS.

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by TongZhai almost 8 years ago

BASINS - SARA Timeseries Utility

San Antonio River Authority (SARA) Timeseries Utility program is a general purpose time series data management tool with a focus on facilitating environmental engineering and numerical modeling. It streamlines data access, management, analysis, and visualization operations. It is considered a modernized upgrade from the legacy GenScn program.

See release note for details.

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by TongZhai almost 8 years ago

BASINS - AQUA TERRA Division of RESPEC releases HSPEXP+1.32

Dated: 5/9/2017

HSPEXP+1.32

Features:

  1. A user can now add, subtract, multiply, or divide a timeseries to an existing time series before plotting. Keywords "add", "subtract", "multiply", or "divide" will ensure that the timeseries in the current row will get added, subtracted, multiplied, or divided to the timeseries in the previous row.

Bugs Fixed:

  1. Error checking has been improved. If HSPEXP+ cannot find a timeseries, it provides a proper error message and moves to the next graph, and generates rest of the graphs.
  2. Code has been cleaned by removing unneeded variables and references.

Register as a HSPEXP+ User

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by mishranurag almost 8 years ago

BASINS - HSPEXP+1.31 (a minor update)

This release is a minor update to the HSPEXP+1.30. To read additional details from the previous version, you can refer to HSPEXP+1.30 release

Bugs Fixed

  1. The surface runoff, potential evapotranspiration, interflow were not being reported in the ExpertStats output report. This issue has been fixed.

Register as a HSPEXP+ User

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by mishranurag about 8 years ago

BASINS - AQUA TERRA Division of RESPEC Releases HSPEXP+1.30

HSPEXP+1.31 is available with a minor update.

Dated: 3/30/2017

HSPEXP+1.30

Features:

1. Expert Statistics with non-continuous data - If the observed flow data is non-continuous, HSPEXP+ compares the observed and simulated data and discards the data for dates where corresponding observed data is not available. The expert statistics calculation, annual, monthly, and daily flow comparisons are conducted on the remaining data. All output reports include information about the percent of data that is missing, and to use caution while using the results
2. Graphs from JSON Files - BASINS 4.5 and later versions will have the capability to produce graph specifications as a JSON file. HSPEXP+1.30 can produce graphs using the JSON file if it is available in the project folder.
3. Regan Plots - Regan Plots were expanded with following two plots.
     3a. When River Eutrophication Standard (RES) file is provided in the project file as a *.csv file with names as RES_TP_Standard.csv, total phosphorus load duration curves are generated at the locations where RES standard is provided. The RES Standard file expects Reach Number and Reach standard separated by a comma.
     3b. If model output binary files contain sediment output, TSS plots at all the locations are produced along with the bed depth. These plots help determine if there is any issue with the model stability.
4. Box-Whisker Plot of nutrient loadings - When nutrient loading reports are generated, HSPEXP+ also generates a box-whisker plot of nutrient loading rates of ech land use. This helps a modeler quickly compare the land use loading rates and notice any anomalies.
5. Bar graph of the nutrient loading allocation - When a user requests nutrient reports at specific locations, a bar graph of nutrient loads at those locations is also generated.
6. GENER Sources from the NETWORK Block - The reach budget and load allocation reports now include the GENER sources that are listed in NETWORK block.

Bugs Fixed:

  1. The nutrient loading rate reports had some calculation mistake, which could be noticed only in big models. It has been fixed.
  2. The reach budget calculations and loading rate calculations have been improved.
  3. Default values for line and point size have been added in the graphing section.
  4. If HSPEXP+ is started and the UCI file is not read properly, HSPEXP+ gives an option to browse to a different UCI file.

Register as HSPEXP+ User

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Visual Basic .NET
Published by mishranurag about 8 years ago