How to set the operation mode of the reservoirs by ourselves

[walter-git]

Hi everyone,
Hope you all are doing well.
I want to set the operation mode of the reservoirs based on the observations.
But I don't know how to operate in CWATM.
Please help me this regard.
Thank you very much.
Meishui Li
Beijing Normal University

[mikhailsmilovic]

Guten Tag, great question! This determines reservoir releases as a fraction of live storage. These are input as 366-day arrays for each reservoir, each reservoir input as a column in an Excel sheet. There are two types of releases: Reservoirs_downstream, which discharge downstream into the river, and Reservoirs_supply, which is the maximum amount used to satisfy command area demands. In the following discussion, we focus only on Reservoirs_downstream.

Each reservoir with tailored management is included with its ID in the header of a column, followed by 366 live storage fractions.

Include all the reservoirs you wish to tailor the operations for. The reservoirs that are not included in the Excel will be managed in the standard CWatM way, with different levels of release determined with" three storage limits (conservative, normal, flood) and three outflow functions (minimum, normal, non-damaging)."

Procedure

In [OPTIONS]:
reservoir_releases_in_Excel_settings = True

Then, in the [FILE_PATHS] section,
Excel_settings_file = path to Excel settings file
We give an example here: cwatm_settings_reservoirs.xlsx

[walter-git]

Thank you very much！

[mikhailsmilovic]

Great this helps. Let us know how it goes!