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Simulation of Great Lakes Basin water supplies
Author(s) -
Megerian Edmond,
Pentland Ralph L.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
water resources research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.863
H-Index - 217
eISSN - 1944-7973
pISSN - 0043-1397
DOI - 10.1029/wr004i001p00011
Subject(s) - structural basin , bedrock , snow , hydrology (agriculture) , drainage basin , environmental science , water supply , geology , environmental engineering , geotechnical engineering , geomorphology , geography , cartography
The basic concept utilized in the simulation study is to evaluate statistically the recorded supplies to isolate the two components assumed to constitute the basin water supply: (1) that portion of the supply that is considered random, owing to chance interaction of unpredictable meteorological elements, and (2) that portion of the supply that is the result of the persistence due to natural storage in the lakes, soil, bedrock, and snow over the drainage basin. In this study, consideration was also given to the relationship between supplies in neighboring basins. These factors were used to formulate mathematical models for simulation of supplies to all of the Great Lakes simultaneously. Extensive statistical tests have been used to ensure that the statistical parameters and the time series characteristics of the simulated data resemble those of the recorded data.