Value of Medium-range Precipitation Forecasts in Inflow Prediction and Hydropower Optimization

Water Resources Management

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2721-2742

  Tang, Guolei ^a   Zhou, Huicheng ^a   Li, Ningning ^b   Wang, Feng ^a   Wang, Yajun ^c   Jian, Deping ^c  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b DALIAN NEUSOFT UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION   (China)

^c Ertan Hydropower Development Company Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Ertan reservoir; Global Forecast System; Inflow forecasting; Power generation dispatch; Quantitative precipitation forecasts

Indexed keywords

ERTAN RESERVOIR; GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEMS; INFLOW FORECASTING; POWER GENERATION DISPATCH; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECAST;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; RESERVOIRS (WATER); STOCHASTIC MODELS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DAM; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INFLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; POWER GENERATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RESERVOIR; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 77955770744     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-010-9576-1     Document Type: Article

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