WEAP is structured as a set of five different "views" of your
area. These views are listed as graphical icons on the "View Bar",
located on the left of the screen. Click an icon in the View Bar to select
one of the views. For the Results and Scenario Explorer view, WEAP will
calculate scenarios before the view is displayed, if any changes have
been made to the system or the scenarios.
The Schematic
View is the starting point for all activities in WEAP. A central
feature of WEAP is its easy-to-use "drag and drop" graphical
interface used to describe and visualize the physical features of the
water supply and demand system. This spatial layout is called the schematic. You can create, edit and
view it in the Schematic View. GIS layers can be added for clarity and
impact. The Schematic View provides you with one-click access to your
entire analysis--right click on any element in the schematic to access
its data or results.
The Data
Viewis the place where
you create your data structures, models and assumptions in WEAP. In the
Data View, the screen is divided into four panes. On the top left, a hierarchical
tree is used to create and organize data structures under six major categories
Key Assumptions, Demand Sites, Hydrology, Supply and Resources, Environment,
and Other Assumptions. The tree is also used to select the data to be
edited, which is shown on the right of the screen. For example, clicking
on the "Demand Sites" tree branch on the left of the screen,
will display the data for all demand sites on the right of the screen.
On the bottom left is a data inset schematic. Clicking on an element in
the schematic will result in a jump to its place on the tree. On the top-right
of the screen, a data entry table is used to edit data and create modeling
relationships. The information you enter here is displayed graphically
in the bottom right pane.
The Results
Viewdisplays a wide variety of charts and tables covering
each aspect of the system: demand, supply, costs, and environmental loadings.
Customizable reports can be viewed for one or more scenarios. You can
also use the "Favorites" option to bookmark the most useful
charts for your analysis.
The Scenario
Explorer Viewis used to group together "Favorite"
charts (created earlier in the "Results" view) into
"Overviews" for simultaneous display. With Overviews, you can
get a birds-eye perspective on different important aspects of your system,
such as demands, coverage, flows, storage levels, environmental impacts
and costs. You can create multiple Overviews, each of which can display
up to 25 different Favorites. In
addition to showing Results, the Scenario Explorer View can display selected
Data across many scenarios, to help demonstrate the impact of various
assumptions and policies on results. These
input values can be changed on the spot and WEAP will recalculate and
update the results.
The Notes
View is a simple word processing tool with which you can enter
documentation and references for each branch of the tree. To edit the
notes, either type directly into the Notes Window, or select Edit
to display a larger window with additional word-processing features.
Notes can include formatting (bold, underline, fonts, etc.) and can also
include standard Windows "objects" such as spreadsheets. Use
the Print and Print
All buttons () to print one or all of the notes
or the Word buttons to export
one or all of the notes to Microsoft Word. We highly recommend extensive
use of notes to document each scenario.
Tip: If you are working on a low-resolution
screen, we suggest that you hide the View Bar to make more space on the
screen. Use the menu option View: View
Bar to do this. You will then need to use the View
menu to select the different views.
The Schematic
View is the starting point for all activities in WEAP. A central
feature of WEAP is its easy-to-use "drag and drop" graphical
interface used to describe and visualize the physical features of the
water supply and demand system. This spatial layout is called the schematic. You can create, edit and
view it in the Schematic View. GIS layers can be added for clarity and
impact. The Schematic View provides you with one-click access to your
entire analysis--right click on any element in the schematic to access
its data or results.
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