Coordination and control – limits in standard representations  of multi-reservoir operations in hydrological modeling

Rougé, Charles; Reed, Patrick M.; Grogan, Danielle S.; Zuidema, Shan; Prusevich, Alexander; Glidden, Stanley; Lamontagne, Jonathan R.; Lammers, Richard B.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-1365-2021

Articles | Volume 25, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-1365-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-1365-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 25, issue 3

Research article

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19 Mar 2021

Research article |

| 19 Mar 2021

Coordination and control – limits in standard representations of multi-reservoir operations in hydrological modeling

Charles Rougé, Patrick M. Reed, Danielle S. Grogan, Shan Zuidema, Alexander Prusevich, Stanley Glidden, Jonathan R. Lamontagne, and Richard B. Lammers

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-1365-2021-supplement

Data sets

UpperSnakeRiver_reservoirs_WBM C. Rougé, P. M., Reed, D. S. Grogan, S. Zuidema, A. Prusevich, S. Glidden, J. R. Lamontagne, and R. B. Lammers https://github.com/charlesrouge/

Short summary

Amid growing interest in using large-scale hydrological models for flood and drought monitoring and forecasting, it is important to evaluate common assumptions these models make. We investigated the representation of reservoirs as separate (non-coordinated) infrastructure. We found that not appropriately representing coordination and control processes can lead a hydrological model to simulate flood and drought events that would not occur given the coordinated emergency response in the basin.