Abstract: A healthy water ecosystem is particularly important in the Mekong River Basin, home to 75 million people who depend on its water for rice and fish production. Sound water policies will be needed to sustain current basin ...

Abstract: This paper presents an approach to calibrating a holistic water resources–economic model, which involves essential water resources and economic components in a consistent model. The model is formulated as an optimization ...

Abstract: The purpose of irrigation scheduling is to coordinate the timing and amount of water used to irrigate crops in a way that maximizes profits. Using a case study on corn production in the Havana Lowlands region, Illinois, ...

Abstract: It is challenging to obtain optimal operation rules for a system of reservoirs in parallel. This study derives generic optimal operation rules from a multistage nonlinear programming (NLP) model established for a system ...

Abstract: Infrastructure systems are becoming increasingly complex and interdependent, for example, the growing biofuel economy in the United States that is creating new interdependencies between agriculture, biorefining, and ...

Abstract: Reservoir operating rules are often based on deterministic models using critical period (CP) analysis, which results in very conservative decisions. CP is defined as the historical hydrologic period that includes the lowest ...

Abstract: Ecosystem restoration calls for reservoir reoperation. Traditionally, a minimum water release is set as a constraint for downstream ecosystem flow requirement. Recently, research has been conducted for the purpose of ...

Abstract: This paper presents a modeling framework for real-time decision support for irrigation scheduling using the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) probabilistic rainfall forecasts. The forecasts and ...

Abstract: Water resources planning involves groups or institutions having differing objectives, responsibilities, and interests, and it requires collaboration for conflict resolution. In this paper, the characteristics and modeling ...

Abstract: Nutrient-intensive agriculture involving nitrogen application rates exceeding crop requirements results in excessive loads in surface waters, contributing substantially to hypoxia in coastal ecosystems and violations of ...