Risk Analysis of Reservoir Flood Routing Calculation Based on Inflow Forecast Uncertainty

Author: Li Binquan   Liang Zhongmin   Zhang Jianyun   Chen Xueqing   Jiang Xiaolei   Wang Jun   Hu Yiming  

Publisher: MDPI

E-ISSN: 2073-4441|8|11|486-486

ISSN: 2073-4441

Source: Water, Vol.8, Iss.11, 2016-10, pp. : 486-486

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Abstract

Possible risks in reservoir flood control and regulation cannot be objectively assessed by deterministic flood forecasts, resulting in the probability of reservoir failure. We demonstrated a risk analysis of reservoir flood routing calculation accounting for inflow forecast uncertainty in a sub-basin of Huaihe River, China. The Xinanjiang model was used to provide deterministic flood forecasts, and was combined with the Hydrologic Uncertainty Processor (HUP) to quantify reservoir inflow uncertainty in the probability density function (PDF) form. Furthermore, the PDFs of reservoir water level (RWL) and the risk rate of RWL exceeding a defined safety control level could be obtained. Results suggested that the median forecast (50th percentiles) of HUP showed better agreement with observed inflows than the Xinanjiang model did in terms of the performance measures of flood process, peak, and volume. In addition, most observations (77.2%) were bracketed by the uncertainty band of 90% confidence interval, with some small exceptions of high flows. Results proved that this framework of risk analysis could provide not only the deterministic forecasts of inflow and RWL, but also the fundamental uncertainty information (e.g., 90% confidence band) for the reservoir flood routing calculation.