Regime-shifting streamflow processes: Implications for water supply reservoir operations

Water Resources Research

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 3984-4002

  Turner, S W D ^a   Galelli, S ^a  

^a SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN   (Singapore)

Author keywords

climate variability; Hidden Markov Model; reservoir operation; stationary stochastic processes; stochastic dynamic programming; water resources management

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT; RESERVOIRS (WATER); STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; STREAM FLOW; TIME SERIES; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; RESERVOIR OPERATION; STATIONARY STOCHASTIC PROCESS; STOCHASTIC DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE VARIATION; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; MARKOV CHAIN; OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; RESERVOIR; STOCHASTICITY; STREAMFLOW; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE; WATER SUPPLY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84971280440     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015WR017913     Document Type: Article

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