On the advantages of jointly designing dam size and operations: a new paper on Earth’s Future

Globally, many countries are actively seeking to maximize the hydropower potential of major river basins, yielding proposals for constructing approximately 3,700 major dams in the near future. At present, economic cost‐benefit analyses are the dominant approach for evaluating candidate dam designs. Yet they typically fail to explore the interdependence of Read more…

Can Artificial Intelligence improve seasonal forecasts and inform reservoir operations? a new paper on WRR

Increasingly variable hydrologic regimes combined with more frequent and intense extreme events call for accurate medium‐ to long‐term predictions to timely prompt anticipatory operations. Despite in some locations global climate oscillations and particularly the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) may contribute to extending forecast lead times, in other regions there Read more…