DSS-Training (WEAP-MODFLOW)

DSS-training workshops

To disseminate the DSS in the region, the project organizes and funds training workshops in DSS. In the current phase workshops have been conducted in Morocco, Jordan and Syria with participants coming from Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Morocco. A list of initiated applications can be seen here. Interested persons/ instutions can check our website for the actual training schedules or contact us directly via email.

List of conducted workshops:

September 2-6, 2007, Damascus, SYRIA

February 11-15, 2008, Marrakech, MOROCCO

March 9-13, 2008, Amman, JORDAN

April 21-25, 2008, Agadir, MOROCCO

Target Group: Participants from water resources/ water supply/ water research institutions in the Arab League countries,  with a calibrated MODFLOW model, bringing along the MODFLOW2000 model and all relevant input data, climate, recharge, abstractions,....

Participants don’t have to be modelers, however they should have knowledge of all the input parameter especially the recharge assumptions, basic GIS-skills, and a first insight into WEAP (fulfilled at least all the exercises of the WEAP – Tutorial – downloadable from www.weap21.org).

 Program:

• 2 days general introduction into WEAP21 and the linkage to a MODFLOW2000 groundwater flow model.

• 3 days working with own data, design own WEAP model and link it to own MODFLOW2000 model

Prerequisites:

Participants should bring a laptop with all relevant digital model data stored on it, and respective software installed:

• EXCEL, ACCESS, GIS,…
• WEAP21 – should be downloaded from www.weap21.org and freely licensed through the respective waiver form for the participant’s institution. A tutorial can be downloaded from the same website and the respective exercises have to be fulfilled before the workshop
• If available Modelling software like GMS, Processing Modflow;….