The Regime Prescription Tool (HEC-RPT) is a software tool designed to facilitate entry, viewing, and documentation of flow recommendations in real-time, public settings. HEC-RPT seeks to improve 1) communications in group settings by allowing real-time recording and plotting of the recommendations as they are developed and 2) the recommendations produced by making hydrologic information more immediately accessible to scientists, engineers, and water managers during the formulation process.
HEC-RPT is primarily a visualization tool and is not intended to perform the detailed quantitative analyses (e.g., statistical analyses or reservoir and river routing) already performed by other software packages. Instead, HEC-RPT seeks to complement other software by making it easier to create flow time series that other software packages can import and use in their analyses.
HEC-RPT is used as a “stand alone” or independent software capable of accessing hydrologic data for reading, writing, and plotting data. Management recommendations formulated in HEC-RPT can be exported to HEC-DSS (Data Storage System) and are thereby available for immediate analysis in other software, including reservoir system simulation, river hydraulics, and ecosystem functions.