Ensemble hydrological prediction-based real-time optimization of a multiobjective reservoir during flood season in a semiarid basin with global numerical weather predictions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Fuxing ^a,b,c   Wang, Lei ^b,c   Zhou, Huicheng ^a   Valeriano, Oliver C Saavedra ^d,e   Koike, Toshio ^c   Li, Wenlong ^f  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e EGYPT JAPAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Egypt)

^f Fengman Hydropower Plant   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODEL; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION; EXTREME FLOOD; FLOOD EVENT; FLOOD PEAK; FLOOD SEASON; HYDROLOGICAL PREDICTION; JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCIES; LEADTIME; LOCATION ERRORS; MULTI OBJECTIVE; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM; PERTURBATION AMPLITUDE; PREDICTION-BASED; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECAST; REAL-TIME OPERATION; REAL-TIME OPTIMIZATION; RESERVOIR WATER LEVEL; STREAMFLOW FORECAST; STREAMFLOW UNCERTAINTY; TARGET LEVELS; WATER AND ENERGIES; WATER USE;

FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; RIVERS; STREAM FLOW; WATER LEVELS; WATER SUPPLY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

BASIN; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOODING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; OPTIMIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; REAL TIME; RESERVOIR; SEMIARID REGION; STREAMFLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER LEVEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84864767882     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011366     Document Type: Article

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