River Dee Research Program: 3. A short‐term control strategy for multipurpose reservoir systems

An automated control strategy has been developed for the short‐term operation of multipurpose reservoir systems that will act as the basis for on‐line processing of data obtained from a sophisticated telemetry scheme. The action of the computer will be (1) to interrogate the outstations via the telemetry scheme to establish the existing state of the water resource system, (2) to forecast the future state of the system, and (3) to decide the optimal releases from the multipurpose reservoirs. The real‐time forecasting stage uses digital simulation, and the decision‐making stage is based on a dynamic programing formulation.