Application of Hydroinformatic Tools for Reservoirs Discharges Rules Assessment During a Flood Event

10 pages•Published: September 20, 2018

José Pinho, Luís Vieira, Jose Vieira, Stênio Venâncio, Nuno Simões, José Sá Marques and Fernando Seabra Santos

Abstract

Hydrological and hydrodynamic models are valuable tools for understanding complex river hydrodynamics behavior during flood events. These tools have been applied to develop a detailed study of the flood event occurred between 9 and 11 January 2016 in the river Mondego basin, causing severe floods at Coimbra city (Portugal). The study included the characterization of the operational discharge schemes of three upstream dams with direct influence on flow rates in the river basin, and the runoff flows from contributing catchments. A detailed analysis on hydrodynamic water levels at the flooded areas influenced by the operation of a downstream dam and the local river morphodynamics was performed. Hydroinformatic tools were applied in different scenarios allowing the characterization and identification of the key factors responsible for the flood event and contributing to emphasize the need to comply with the established rules for the discharges at the upstream dams during flood events.

Keyphrases: floods, hydrodynamics, hydrology, numerical modelling, reservoirs operational rules

In: Goffredo La Loggia, Gabriele Freni, Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis (editors). HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, vol 3, pages 1672-1681.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/JpdX
	https://doi.org/10.29007/2r8m

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{HIC2018:Application_Hydroinformatic_Tools_Reservoirs,
  author    = {José Pinho and Luís Vieira and Jose Vieira and Stênio Venâncio and Nuno Simões and José Sá Marques and Fernando Seabra Santos},
  title     = {Application of Hydroinformatic Tools for Reservoirs Discharges Rules Assessment During a Flood Event},
  booktitle = {HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics},
  editor    = {Goffredo La Loggia and Gabriele Freni and Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Engineering},
  volume    = {3},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2516-2330},
  url       = {/publications/paper/JpdX},
  doi       = {10.29007/2r8m},
  pages     = {1672-1681},
  year      = {2018}}

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