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StateMod Documentation

This documentation is the user manual for Colorado's Decision Support Systems (CDSS) StateMod water allocation model software.

The State of Colorado's Stream Simulation Model (StateMod) is a water allocation and accounting model capable of making comparative analyses of various historical and future water management policies in a river basin. It is designed to be applied to any river basin through appropriate input data preparation.

This documentation is a work in progress, with the initial online version including references to the existing PDF format and examples to illustrate use of online documentation features.

This documentation page includes the following sections:

How to Use this Documentation

This documentation is the user documentation for the StateMod software. Major sections of the documentation currently consist of the legacy Word/PDF documentation. The legacy PDF documents are referenced from web pages for each section of the user documentation, using the original chapter numbers. Some shorter sections have been converted to online form. The legacy documentation may be fully converted to online navigable form at some point.

Use the navigation menu on the left to select pages and the navigation menu on the right to select sections within a page. The navigation menus may be collapsed if viewing in a narrow window or mobile device.

Colorado's Decision Support Systems (CDSS)

Colorado's Decision Support Systems (CDSS, cdss.state.co.us) has been developed to answer important questions about Colorado's water resources. CDSS efforts are led by the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) and Colorado Division of Water Resources (DWR).

CDSS Website

One component of CDSS is the StateMod water allocation model, which estimates water allocation given water supply and demand and physical and legal (water right) constraints on water decisions. StateMod results are linked to the StateCU consumptive use model and in some basins the MODFLOW groundwater model.

In late 2016, the CWCB funded the OpenCDSS project to move StateMod and other CDSS software to open source licensing and establish open source software projects. The Open Water Foundation was contracted to lead the OpenCDSS project.

License

The license for this documentation is the Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 license.

The license for StateCU software is the GPL v3 license.

Source Repository on GitHub

The source files for this documentation are maintained in the public GitHub repository for StateMod: cdss-app-statemod-fortran-doc-user. Documentation website files currently are copied to the Open Water Foundation Learn StateMod website, and will be copied to an OpenCDSS website in the future.

Release Notes

Release notes for StateMod and this documentation will be implemented as the open source migration is finalized.