The six WRAP manuals, Daily/Monthly Guidance Report, and Additions and Revisions Report are accessed through the “Manuals and Reports” web page of this website. Appendix A of the Reference Manual entitled “Bibliography of WRAP Related Publications” lists many reports, papers, book chapters, M.S. theses, and Ph.D. dissertations. A book and several WRAP related journal papers and technical reports are accessible from the following list by clicking the links revealed by clicking the label PDF.
ASCE Press Book
PDF Managing Water in River and Reservoir Systems: Water Resources, Institutional Practices, and Constructed Infrastructure in Texas, Wurbs, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Press, 2024. (Printed and E-book versions of the book can be purchased from the ASCE Library. Texas A&M University Library maintains a subscription allowing TAMU faculty and students to download the e-book PDF version from the ASCE Library free-of-charge.)
Journal Papers
PDF Surface Water Variability, Stationarity, and Availability in Texas, Wurbs, Texas Water Journal, 2026. (This paper and a recorded webinar discussing the paper are available at the Texas Water Journal website.)
PDF Institutional Aspects of Assessing Surface Water Availability, Wurbs, Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education, Wurbs, 2025.
PDF Water Rights Analysis Package Modeling System, Wurbs, Texas Water Journal, 2021.
PDF Institutional Framework for Modeling Water Availability and Allocation, Wurbs, Journal of Water, 2020.
PDF Monthly River Flows in Texas for Natural and Developed Conditions, Wurbs, Water Cycle Journal, 2020.
PDF Environmental Flow Requirements in a Water Availability Modeling System, Wurbs and Hoffpauir, Journal of Sustainability of Water Quality and Ecology, 2016.
PDF Environment Flow Attainment Metrics, Pauls and Wurbs, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 2016.
PDF Sustainable Statewide Water Resources Management in Texas, Wurbs, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 2015.
PDF Water Allocation Systems, Wurbs, Chapter in Water Resources Planning, Development and Management, 2013.
PDF Short-Term Reservoir Storage Frequency Relationships, Wurbs, Schnier, and Olmos, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 2012.
PDF Reservoir/River System Management Models, Wurbs, Texas Water Journal, 2012.
PDF Salinity in Water Availability Modeling, Wurbs and Lee, Journal of Hydrology, 2011.
PDF Condensing Water Availability Models to Focus on Specific Water Management Systems, Wurbs and Kim, Texas Water Journal, 2010.
PDF Texas Water Availability Modeling System, Wurbs, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 2005.
PDF Incorporation of Climate Change in Water Availability Modeling, Wurbs, Muttiah, and Felden, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 2005.
PDF Modeling the Impacts of Climate Change on Water Supply Reliabilities, Muttiah and Wurbs, Water International, 2002.
PDF Reservoir/River System Analysis Models: Conventional Simulation versus Network Flow Programming, Wurbs and Yerramreddy, Journal of Water Resources Development, 1994.
PDF Water Rights Modeling and Analysis, Wurbs and Walls, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management,1989.
Technical Reports from Research Studies at TAMU
(Synthesis Report) – Incorporation of Environmental Flow Standards and Other Water Management Complexities in Water Availability Modeling, Wurbs, TCEQ, TWRI TR-566, 2025. (The 13 chapters and three appendices are provided below as two PDFs.)
PDF Synthesis Report Chapters
PDF Synthesis Report Appendices
PDF Daily Water Availability Model for the Nueces River Basin, Wurbs, TCEQ, 2023.
PDF Daily Water Availability Model for the Lavaca River Basin, Wurbs, TCEQ, 2023.
PDF Daily Water Availability Model for the Colorado River Basin and Brazos-Colorado Coastal Basin, Wurbs, TCEQ, 2022.
PDF Daily Water Availability Model for the Neches River Basin, Wurbs, TCEQ, 2020.
PDF Daily Water Availability Model for the Trinity River Basin, TCEQ, 2019.
PDF Daily Water Availability Model for the Brazos River Basin and San Jacinto-Brazos Coastal Basin, Wurbs, TCEQ, TWRI TR-513, 2019.
PDF River System Hydrology in Texas, Wurbs and Zhang, TWRI TR-461, 2014.
PDF Comparative Evaluation of Generalized River/Reservoir System Models, Wurbs, TWRI TR-282, 2005.