Data archive for 'Opportunities to curb hydrological alterations via dam re-operation in the Mekong'

This repository contains the data used in the paper 'Opportunities to curb hydrological alterations via dam re-operation in the Mekong'.

We first use VIC-Res to simulate daily river discharge and available hydropower generation of the Mekong basin from 1996 to 2016 under 32 scenarios (NAT (natural flow conditions), BAU (business as usual), MAX_MB (dams kept at full storage in Mekong), MAX_LMB (dams kept at full storage in Lower Mekong), and 28 OPT (optimized re-operation strategies) scenarios). The 'VIC-Res' folder contains the daily discharge at Stung Treng and hydropower production in Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand. The hydropower outputs are then used in PowNet, a unit commitment/economic dispatch model for the Cambodian, Laotian, and Thai power systems. 'PowNet' folder contains the relevant input and output files for the three scenarios that are elaborated on in the paper (BAU, MAX_LMB, and OPT).

For more information on the PowNet models, refer to the following GitHub repositories: PowNet-Cambodia, PowNet-Laos, PowNet-Thailand.