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Impacts of Ignored Evaporation and Sedimentation Fluxes at Planning on Reservoir Performance in Operation

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Inevitable evaporation and sedimentation will influence reservoir operational performance if the two fluxes have been ignored when sizing reservoir systems. While this is to be expected, very few studies have quantified this influence. This study has analysed the effects of evaporation and sedimentation on reservoirs operational performance. It used seven reservoirs in Yesilirmak Basin, Turkey as case studies. The Dams serve a variety of purposes including irrigation, domestic and industrial, hydropower generation and flood control. Performance with regard to meeting these needs was characterized using reliability (time-based and volume-based), resilience, vulnerability and sustainability. The results showed that while ignoring both the evaporation and sedimentation during planning does affect subsequent operational performance, the influence of evaporation was more significant. Possible reasons are provided for the outcome and ways by which both can be accommodated during planning analyses thus mitigating the operational effects are suggested.

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Some data, models or code used during the study are available from the corresponding author on request.

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Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, Directorate of Science Fellowships and Grant Programmes (BİDEB), 2214-International Research Fellowship Programme for their funding support to Murat Pinarlik to undertake a period of attachment at Heriot-Watt University, UK, during which the work was undertaken. We also thank the Turkish Republic General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works for providing the data.

Funding

The research is an outcome of the overseas visiting doctoral fellowship awarded to Murat Pinarlik by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, Directorate of Science Fellowships and Grant Programmes (BİDEB), 2214-International Research Fellowship Programme to undertake a period of attachment at Heriot-Watt University, UK.

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  1. Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Technology, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey

    Murat Pinarlik & Zeliha Selek

  2. Institute for Infrastructure and Environment School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society (EGIS), Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK

    Murat Pinarlik & Adebayo J. Adeloye

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Murat Pinarlik: Conceptualisation, Software, Formal analysis, Writing- original draft, Scholarship awardee. Adebayo J. Adeloye: Supervision, Visualisation, Review of results, Writing- review and editing. Zeliha Selek: Supervision, Investigation, Writing- review and editing,

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Highlights

• Evaporation and sediment exclusion affects reservoir size

• During reservoir operation, evaporation effect is more significant

• Both effects will increase with higher sediment yield and net evaporation

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Appendix A

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Time Series Plots of the Runoff of Almus Reservoir

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Time Series Plots of the Runoff of Hasan Ugurlu Reservoir

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Time Series Plots of the Runoff of Yenihayat Reservoir

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Time Series Plots of the Runoff of Alaca Reservoir

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Time Series Plots of the Runoff of Corum Almus Reservoir

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Time Series Plots of the Runoff of Yedikir Reservoir

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Time Series Plots of the Runoff of Cakmak Reservoir

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Appendix B

Table 8 Annual Volumetric Evaporation Data of Yenihayat and Alaca Dams
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Table 9 Annual Volumetric Evaporation Data of Almus, Cakmak and Hasan Ugurlu Dams
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Table 10 Annual Volumetric Evaporation Data of Yedikir Dam
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Table 11 Annual Volumetric Evaporation Data of Corum Dam
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Table 12 Monthly Volumetric Evaporation Data
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Table 13 Monthly Mean Runoff and Monthly Mean Sediment Load
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Appendix C

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The Time Series Plots of the Almus Reservoir Contents with Evaporation and Sedimentation

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The Time Series Plots of the Hasan Ugurlu Reservoir Contents with Evaporation and Sedimentation

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The Time Series Plots of the Yenihayat Reservoir Contents with Evaporation and Sedimentation

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The Time Series Plots of the Alaca Reservoir Contents with Evaporation and Sedimentation

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The Time Series Plots of the Corum Reservoir Contents with Evaporation and Sedimentation

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The Time Series Plots of the Yedikir Reservoir Contents with Evaporation and Sedimentation

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The Time Series Plots of the Cakmak Reservoir Contents with Evaporation and Sedimentation

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Pinarlik, M., Adeloye, A.J. & Selek, Z. Impacts of Ignored Evaporation and Sedimentation Fluxes at Planning on Reservoir Performance in Operation. Water Resour Manage 35, 3539–3570 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-021-02904-5

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