Daily Time-Step Refinement of Optimized Flood Control Rule Curves for a Global Warming Scenario

Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 309-317

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

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b US Army Corps of Engineers   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Columbia River; Floods; Global warming; Hydrologic models; Optimization; Reservoirs; Simulation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; COLUMBIA RIVER; EXISTING SYSTEMS; HYDRO-POWER GENERATION; HYDROLOGIC IMPACTS; HYDROLOGIC MODELS; INTERNATIONAL JOINT COMMISSIONS; LAKE LEVELS; OPERATING RULE; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; SIMULATION; SIMULATION MODEL; STREAMFLOW TIMINGS; TIME STEP; TIME-SCALES; WATER RESOURCE SYSTEMS; WATER RESOURCES SYSTEMS;

CLIMATE CONTROL; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURVE FITTING; FLOOD CONTROL; GLOBAL WARMING; LAKES; OPTIMIZATION; REFINING; WATER RESOURCES;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; FLOOD CONTROL; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; OPTIMIZATION; STREAMFLOW; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

COLUMBIA RIVER;

EID: 79960123401     PISSN: 07339496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0000125     Document Type: Article

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