Predicting cumulative sediment depostition in large reservoirs |
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Authors: | R M Phatarfod T E Unny K Ponnambalam |
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Institution: | (1) Dep. of Mathematics, Monash University, 3168 Clayton, Victoria, Australia;(2) Dep. of System Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, N2L 3G1 Waterloo, Canada |
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Abstract: | Sediment deposition and its accumulation in a large resorvoir depends on the inflow and reservoir storage content, respectively. Because of this fact it is possible to model the cumulative deposition of sediment as an additive process defined on a bivariate Markov chain. Using the bivariate Markov chain model the mean and variance of the cumulative deposition of John Martin Reservoir, Colorado, U.S.A. are estimated and compared with observed sedimentation data. |
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Keywords: | Sedimentation Large Reservoirs Markov Chains |
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