Articles | Volume 16, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-5449-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-5449-2023
Development and technical paper
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22 Sep 2023
Development and technical paper |  | 22 Sep 2023

Enhancing the representation of water management in global hydrological models

Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu, Fuqiang Tian, Thomas Wild, Mengqi Zhao, Sean Turner, A. F. M. Kamal Chowdhury, Chris R. Vernon, Hongchang Hu, Yuan Zhuang, Mohamad Hejazi, and Hong-Yi Li

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Most existing global hydrologic models do not explicitly represent hydropower reservoirs. We are introducing a new water management module to Xanthos that distinguishes between the operational characteristics of irrigation, hydropower, and flood control reservoirs. We show that this explicit representation of hydropower reservoirs can lead to a significantly more realistic simulation of reservoir storage and releases in over 44 % of the hydropower reservoirs included in this study.