Abstract: Water rationing in reservoir operation is essential for mitigating the damage of water deficits from prolonged and severe droughts. This problem is addressed in this study using hedging rules characterized by three hedging ...

Abstract: A methodology based on the range of variability approach (RVA) is presented for determining the feasible combinations of flow diversion and instream flow release for a projected diversion weir. The RVA is designed to support ...

Abstract: Droughts are stochastic in nature, therefore, statistical assessment of droughts is an attractive approach for water resources planning and management. In this study, a methodology of frequency and risk analysis of hydrologic ...

Abstract: This study aims to construct the multiple time-scale joint distributions of drought duration and severity using two-dimensional copulas and compare the drought characteristics in India’s two contrasting climate regions: ...