Forecasting low flow conditions for the Elbe and Rhine:

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	Forecasting low flow conditions for the Elbe and Rhine:
	admin
	2020-08-06
发布年	2020
语种	英语
国家	德国
领域	资源环境
正文(英文)	Using conventional methods, the water levels in German rivers can be predicted roughly six weeks in advance. That is why the drought in the summer of 2018, characterised by extremely low flow conditions in the Rhine and Elbe, caught not only ships’ crews on the inland waterways by surprise, but also most of those running refineries, steelworks and chemical companies located along the course of the rivers. Many of the companies that rely on water transport soon reported delivery bottlenecks and production downtimes. The economic damages could certainly have been avoided if modern forecasting methods had been used. That is the conclusion researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) reached after testing their recently developed model for long-term predictions of flow volumes in rivers using the conditions from the drought summer 2018. The result: using global ocean and climate data, they were able to reliably forecast the low waters in the Elbe and Rhine as much as three months in advance. The AWI experts’ detailed analysis was published today in a freely available article in the Nature online journal Scientific Reports.
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来源平台	Helmholtz Association
文献类型	新闻
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/286291
专题	资源环境科学
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	admin. Forecasting low flow conditions for the Elbe and Rhine:. 2020.