Articles | Volume 24, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-1275-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-1275-2020
Research article
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19 Mar 2020
Research article |  | 19 Mar 2020

Inferred inflow forecast horizons guiding reservoir release decisions across the United States

Sean W. D. Turner, Wenwei Xu, and Nathalie Voisin

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ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by editor and referees) (18 Dec 2019) by Louise Slater
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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (11 Feb 2020) by Louise Slater
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Short summary
To understand human vulnerability to flood and drought risk across large regions, researchers increasingly use large-scale hydrological models that convert climate to river flows. These models include the important effects of river regulation by dams but do not currently capture dam operators' use of flow forecasts to mitigate risk. This research addresses this problem by developing an approach to infer the forecast horizons contributing to the operations of a large sample of dams.