Civil Engineering
An uncertainty assessment of reservoir system performance indices under the climate change effect

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Abstract

The study aimed to evaluate the uncertainty indices in reservoir performance of Namrood-Dam(Iran) that affected by climate change. To this end, downscaling was performed for the future period using the output of the EC-EARTH-GCM under the RCP scenarios and employing the LARS-WG6 model. The uncertainty in reservoir performance of under the current and climate change conditions, and 85% and 70% of the agricultural demand was evaluated using the WEAP. Based on the results, the reduction of inflow by 8.36% and 12.64% under RCP4.5 and RCP8.5, respectively, resulted in decreasing of the performance indices. In addition, 30% reducing the agricultural demand under the RCP4.5 had the highest values of sustainability index (SI) and its range for Firouz Kouh and Garmsar agriculture decreased by 20.64% and 34.2%, respectively. The ranges of SI variation were lower in comparison with the other indices, and accordingly, it enjoyed higher reliability for evaluating the system state.

Keywords

Namrood dam
Uncertainty
WEAP
Reservoir Performance Index

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Hossein Babazadeh is an academic member of the Science and Research branch at the Islamic Azad University (IAU), Islamic Republic of Iran, with an emphasis on agricultural water sciences. He completed his graduate and post-graduate work at the University of Tehran and his doctorate at the Science and Research branch of IAU. He has been teaching and researching for over 16 years with commendations for his commitment to teaching excellence. He has also contributed to his field by writing numerous articles for national and international journals and being a supervisor and adviser of M.Sc. and Ph.D. students in water sciences. In addition to his work at IAU, he has consulted on many national and international water projects as a water resources planner, modeler, and project manager, especially in water resources development, allocation projects, and policies.

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