The GLORY (GLObal Reservoir Yield) model is an open-source Python package designed to optimize water yield for a given reservoir storage capacity while also estimating the economic value of reservoir water supply for global river basins. The GLORY model streamlines workflows by integrating information on climate, hydrology, water demand, reservoir exploitable potential, and physiography to estimate the water availability and prices of water supply from reservoirs. GLORY identifies the sub-annual regulation capability and associated investment of reservoirs and establishes boundary conditions for basin-level analysis on reservoir management.
Zhao, M., Wild, T.B., Vernon, C., 2024. GLORY: a python package for global reservoir water yield and cost estimation. (In progress) Journal of Open Source Software, DOI: XXXX
Zhao, M., Wild, T. B., Graham, N. T., Kim, S., Binsted, M., Chowdhury, A. F. M. K., Msangi, S., Patel, P. L., Vernon, C. R., Niazi, H., Li, H.-Y., and Abeshu, G. W.: GCAM-GLORY v1.0: Representing Global Reservoir Water Storage in a Multisector Human-Earth System Model, Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2023-204, in review, 2023.