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

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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.
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