Water Resources Yield -- McMahon and Adeloye

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Title: Water Resources Yield
Authors: Thomas A. McMahon and Adebayo J. Adeloye
Specifications: Soft Cover, 234 pp,
ISBN-13: 978-1-887201-38-4
ISBN-10: 1-887201-38-6
Price: US $75
Cat No: WRY

**This publication is a complete reference text on surface water resources yield assessment for graduate students, university professors and water resources planning practitioners**

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DESCRIPTION

• Useful to water engineers, practicing hydrologists, and graduate students
• New and updated techniques relevant to present day analyses
• Classification of S-Y-P techniques
• Worked examples of 4 streams representing world-wide variability range
• Brings together both theory and application of S-Y-P techniques
• On-stream and off-stream storages

Water Resources Yield was written by authors with extensive experience of teaching, research and consultancy in the field of water resources planning and management. The book has benefited from their extensive experience teaching this subject to graduate students from various parts of the world, and some of the worked examples have been adapted from those used in their lecture notes. It was written in clear and concise language and is unique by having worked examples based on four different rivers, which highlight the variations in hydrological conditions around the world. Thus in addition to demonstrating how some of the complex reservoir storage-yield-performance techniques described in the book could be implemented using real life data, the worked examples have also helped to highlight the effects which the continental hydrological differences could have on surface water storage-yield-performance functions.

Water Resources Yield has continued the tradition in two earlier books - River and Reservoir Yield and Reservoir Capacity and Yield - by providing very up-to-date review of techniques that deal with yield hydrology of streams and reservoirs. Thus in this book, recently introduced performance metrics such as resilience, vulnerability, sustainability, figures of merit, drought risk index, etc. are described in detail using worked examples. The same goes for modifications of the sequent peak algorithm and the variety of generalised storage-yield-performance functions for use without the need to analyse time series data.

This book is one of the most complete reference textbooks on water resources yield assessment and is a must for all graduate students, university Professors and practitioners engaged in the subject.

TABLE OF CONTENTS [top]

Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION
1.1 WHY THIS BOOK?
1.2 PREVIOUS BOOKS
1.3 WHAT WILL THIS BOOK COVER?
1.4 WORKED EXAMPLES
1.5 NOTATION

Chapter 2: CLASSIFICATION, DEFINITIONS AND UNREGULATED YIELD 6
2.1 INTRODUCTION
2.2 CLASSIFICATION OF S-Y-P PROCEDURES
2.3 DEFINITIONS
2.4 DEALING WITH HISTORICAL DATA
2.5 ESTIMATING UNREGULATED YIELD
2.6 NOTATION

Chapter 3: SINGLE STORAGE SYSTEMS BASED ON HISTORICAL DATA
3.1 INTRODUCTION
3.2 DIRECT ABSTRACTION
3.3 OFF-STREAM STORAGE
3.4 ON-STREAM STORAGE - QUICK PROCEDURES
3.5 ON-STREAM STORAGE - DETAILED PROCEDURES
3.6 SECONDARY EFFECTS
3.7 WITHIN-YEAR METHODOLOGIES
3.8 COMPARISON OF PERFORMANCE MEASURES
3.9 NOTATION

Chapter 4: MULTI-RESERVOIR SYSTEMS
4.1 INTRODUCTION
4.2 MODIFIED SEQUENT PEAK ALGORITHM APPLIED TO MULTIPLE RESERVOIR SYSTEMS
4.3 SYSTEM SIMULATION USING BEHAVIOUR ANALYSIS
4.4 TRANSITION PROBABITY MATRIX
4.5 NOTATION

Chapter 5: STOCHASTIC DATA GENERATION IN RESERVOIR SYSTEMS
5.1 INTRODUCTION
5.2 STOCHASTIC STREAMFLOW MODELS
5.3 ANNUAL STREAMFLOW DATA GENERATION MODELS FOR SINGLE SITES
5.4 MULTIPLE SITE MODEL FOR ANNUAL FLOWS
5.5 MONTHLY MODELS
5.6 OTHER ISSUES
5.7 NOTATION

Chapter 6: RESERVOIR PLANNING BY OPTIMISATION
6.1 INTRODUCTION
6.2 RESERVOIR OPTIMISATION MODELS
6.3 EXAMPLES OF LINEAR PROGRAMMING FORMULATION
6.4 LINEAR PROGRAMMING OPTIMISATION FOR PLANNING MULTIPLE RESERVOIRS
6.5 INCORPORATING RELIABILITY CONSIDERATION INTO LINEAR PROGRAMMING MODELS
6.6 DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING, NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING AND OTHER OPTIMISATION SCHEMES IN WATER RESOURCES
6.7 NOTATION
REFERENCES

Appendix 1: DEFINITION OF STATISTICAL AND OTHER PARAMETERS
Appendix 2: MONTHLY STREAMFLOW DATA
Appendix 3: IMPLEMENTATION OF MONTASERI'S ALGORITHM FOR SPA
Appendix 4: STORAGE SIZE ADJUSTMENT FOR ASSUMPTION OF INDEPENDENCE OF ANNUAL STREAMFLOWS
Appendix 5: EXAMPLE OF MULTI-SITE RESERVOIR PLANNING USING SPA
Appendix 6: TRANSFORMING GAMMA FLOWS TO NORMAL FLOWS
SUBJECT INDEX

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