Water Resources of the United States
GenScn
GENeration and analysis of model simulation SCeNarios
Information
Portions of this computer program are owned by
Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. Copyright ESRI,
199_. All Rights Reserved. Use, duplication and disclosure by the
U.S. Government are subject to restrictions set forth in FAR
Section 12.212 (Commercial) Computer Software, as applicable.
Contractor/Manufacturer is Environmental Systems Research
Institute, Inc., 380 New York Street, Redlands, CA 92373-8100
USA. Some data are provided by GDT, Copyright Geographic Data
Technology, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
References to commercial vendors of software products or
services is for informational purposes only and does not imply
endorsement by the U.S. Government.
Software
Select the following two links to retrieve the two
distribution files required for a complete installation of
GenScn. See the README file for
installation instructions.
- gscn1_0.exe
(10.3MB)
- self-extracting executable of the GenScn software
- hspfhelp.exe
(3.2MB)
- self-extracting executable of the full HSPF User's Manual
in Windows help file format
Documentation
- How to order
U.S. Geological Survey printed documentation
- Kittle, J.L., Jr., Lumb, A.M., Hummel, P.R., Duda,
P.B., Gray, M.H., 1998, A tool for the generation and analysis
of model simulation scenarios for watersheds (GenScn): U.S.
Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report
98-4134, 152 p.
The full text of the above report is accessible from within
GenScn through the Help menu. The report has also been made
available in the following formats to facilitate printing a copy
of the report:
The USGS Truckee-Carson
Program served as impetus to the development of GenScn and
the following two Fact Sheets describe some of the program's
accomplishments. Note that the first Fact Sheet below describes a
precursor to the current version of GenScn.
- Fact Sheet
FS-165-95
- Bohman, L.R., Berris, S.N., and Hess, G.W., 1995,
Interactive computer program to simulate and analyze
streamflow, Truckee and Carson River Basins, Nevada and
California: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-165-95, 4
p.
- Fact Sheet
FS-082-96
- Berris, S.N., Hess, G.W., and Cartier, K.D, 1996,
Simulation of Selected Reservoir Operations in the Upper
Truckee River Basin, California: U.S. Geological Survey Fact
Sheet FS-082-96, 4 p.
Point of contact for GenScn:
U.S. Geological Survey
Hydrologic Analysis Software Support Program
437 National Center
Reston, VA 20192
(electronic mail: h2osoft@usgs.gov)