Articles | Volume 16, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-5449-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-5449-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Development and technical paper
| 
22 Sep 2023
Development and technical paper |
| 22 Sep 2023
| 22 Sep 2023
Enhancing the representation of water management in global hydrological models
Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA
Fuqiang Tian
Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing
100084, China
Thomas Wild
Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Mengqi Zhao
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, USA
Sean Turner
Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory, College Park, MD 20740, USA
A. F. M. Kamal Chowdhury
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Chris R. Vernon
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, USA
Hongchang Hu
Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing
100084, China
Yuan Zhuang
Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing
100084, China
Mohamad Hejazi
Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory, College Park, MD 20740, USA
now at: King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center
(KAPSARC), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA
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Latest update: 28 Aug 2025
Short summary
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.
Most existing global hydrologic models do not explicitly represent hydropower reservoirs. We are...
