FIRO - Forecast-informed Reservoir Operations

[Astronuc]

Ignoring the part about fossil fuels, or the prediction of demand, I heard an interesting discussion about using more reliable forecasting in conjunction with dam/reservoir operation.

https://www.marketplace.org/2023/10...le-hydro-dams-look-to-new-forecasting-method/

https://www.wired.com/story/hydro-dams-climate-change-weather-forecasting/

https://www.drought.gov/regional-activities/forecast-informed-reservoir-operations-firo

https://cw3e.ucsd.edu/firo/

https://water.ca.gov/News/Blog/2023...Are-Key-to-Managing-Floods-and-Water-Supplies

https://psl.noaa.gov/outreach/resources/handouts/firo.pdf

Forecast Informed Reservoir Operations Using Ensemble Streamflow Predictions for a Multipurpose Reservoir in Northern California​

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019WR026604

 

[berkeman]

A lot of that is going on in my own backyard. The weather and precipitation in Northern California has been all over the map for the last decade or so...

 

[Bystander]

Weather? Forecasting? When it's raining, it's wet out; when it's not, it isn't: paraphrased from my father, the wheat farmer, "When it rains, it rains; when it doesn't, it doesn't." ---SW Kansas

 

[berkeman]

“Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.”
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― George Carlin

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/94...ght-dark-continued-dark-overnight-with-widely