Evaluation of Alavian Reservoir Operation Performance under the Condition of Future Climate Change

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1 Department of Water Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz

2 Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Tabriz

Abstract

Evaluation of the impact of climate change on water resources is one of the main tasks of researchers in the world. Considerable efforts have been done to study the hydrological processes and effects of climate change on water resources. Iran is a developing country where more than 85 percent of its total water is used in agriculture. The Urmia Lake located in the North West of Iran has lost a lot of its water. This is because of building several dams in the basin areas and also climate changes. Although several studies about the effects of climate change on the basin rivers flows [1] and also simulations of the reservoirs operation [2] have been separately carried out, few studies have examined the operation of reservoirs under climate change conditions. Moreover, most of the studies have used a simple climate model, HadCM3, and less attention has been paid for evaluating other climate models. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of future climate change on the hydrological response of the Sufichay River basin located at upstream of the Alavian Dam and also the reservoir operation for supplying drinking, industrial, agricultural and the environmental water demands for the next two periods of 20 years, around the years 2020 and 2055, using the reliability criterion.

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Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Volume 45.2, Issue 79 - Serial Number 79
Summer 2015
September 2015
Pages 59-72

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