Optimized flood control in the Columbia river basin for a global warming scenario

Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management

Volumn 135, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 440-450

  Lee, Se Yeun ^a   Hamlet, Alan F ^a,b   Fitzgerald, Carolyn J ^c   Burges, Stephen J ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c US Army Corps of Engineers   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate changes; Columbia River; Floods; Global warming; Hydrologic models; Optimization; Reservoir operation; Simulation

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; COLUMBIA RIVER; FLOOD RISKS; HYDROLOGIC CHANGES; HYDROLOGIC MODELS; MULTI OBJECTIVE; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION MODELS; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; PEAK FLOWS; REBALANCING; RESERVOIR OPERATION; RESERVOIR SYSTEMS; RIVER BASINS; SIMULATION; SNOWMELT; SPRING SNOW; SYSTEMATIC CHANGES; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; WATER SYSTEM;

CLIMATE CONTROL; CURVE FITTING; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDRAULIC MODELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RISK PERCEPTION; SIMULATORS; SNOW; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; WATERSHEDS;

RIVER CONTROL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODING; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; RESERVOIR; SNOWMELT;

COLUMBIA BASIN; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 70350393643     PISSN: 07339496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9496(2009)135:6(440)     Document Type: Article

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