Identifying effective forecast horizon for real-time reservoir operation under a limited inflow forecast

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Zhao, Tongtiegang ^a,b   Yang, Dawen ^a   Cai, Ximing ^b   Zhao, Jianshi ^a   Wang, Hao ^a,c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCAVE OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; DETERMINISTIC FORECASTS; DOMINATING FACTORS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; EVAPORATION LOSS; FORECAST UNCERTAINTY; INFLOW FORECAST; INFORMATION GAIN; OPERATION DECISIONS; RESERVOIR CAPACITY; RESERVOIR OPERATION; RESERVOIR PERFORMANCE; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; STREAMFLOW FORECAST; TEMPORAL CORRELATIONS;

DECISION MAKING;

FORECASTING;

DECISION MAKING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; EVAPORATION; INFLOW; REAL TIME; RESERVOIR; STREAMFLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84863020787     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010623     Document Type: Article

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