Reservoirs, climate change effects

Detecting and Predicting Climate Change Effects in Reservoirs Using... 

Fig. 11 Schematic representation of cascade effects of climate change on reservoir water quality (expressed as anoxia extent)...

Fig. 5 The current River Rhone temperature regime (grey, black) as a result of damming (and partly climate change) compared with daily data (red, blue) from one century ago (1886 and 1904/5). The data has been collected at Porte du Scex by [19], by [18] and by [16] for 1886 (blue), 1904/5 (red), and in the last decades (grey, black), respectively. The red dots are daily values (afternoon). The black bars represent minima and maxima for the period 1982-2002. The hydropower operation has a smoothing effect on the temperature below the outlets in the River Rhone In winter, the current temperature is about 2°C above natural (warming from prewarmed reservoirs) and in summer about 1 °C cooler (less riverbed friction electricity production). The annual average remains almost constant. Details in [10]...

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