Description
The current data upload contains the following hydropower simulation data:
- Climate Forcing: ClimRR (HadGEM) (https://climrr.anl.gov/climrrdata)
- Simulation Scenario: Historical
- Simulation Period: 1995-2004
- Simulation Model: PNNL B1Hydro
- Output Format: CSV
- Spatial Resolution: Hydropower Plants, BAs, HUC4s
- Temporal Resolution: Monthly
- cched_hydro_plants_with_huc4.csv provides metadata for each hydropower plant that is included in the dataset.
- eia_id: EIA plant code that represents the facility
- plant: EIA plant name of the facility
- mode: either 'Storage' or 'RoR' indicating if the facility is primarily operated as a storage or run-of-river facility
- state: two letter name of U.S. State
- lat: latitude of the facility
- lon: longitude of the facility
- nameplate_capacity: total nameplate capacity of the facility according to the EIA
- nerc_region: four letter code for the NERC region of the facility
- ba: balancing authority of the facility
- max_param: a_max parameter used to derive p_max
- min_param: a_min parameter used to derive p_min
- ador_param: a_ador parameter used to derive ador
- huc4: four digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC) that contains the facility
- ClimRR-HadGEM-BC-HIST_monthly.csv provides hydropower generation estimates and flexibility metrics.
- datetime: datatime stamp
- eia_id: EIA plant code that represents the facility
- plant: EIA plant name of the facility
- power_predicted_mwh: monthly total generation in MWh, a.k.a. energy target
- n_hours: number of hours in a month to convert between power and energy
- p_avg: monthly average power generation in aMW
- p_max: flexibility metric of maximum generation capacity in MW
- p_min: flexibility metric of minimum generation capacity in MW
- ador: flexibility metric of daily operation range in MW
- scenario: identifier for simulation runs
- ClimRR-HadGEM-BC-HIST_monthly_by_BA/HUC4.csv provides hydropower generation estimates aggregated by BA/HUC4.
- datetime: datatime stamp
- ba/huc4: balancing authority of the facility/four digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC) which contains the facility
- plant: EIA plant name of the facility
- power_predicted_mwh: monthly total generation in MWh
- n_hours: number of hours in a month to convert between power and energy
- scenario: identifier for simulation runs
- dam_inflow/outflow/storage_ClimRR-HadGEM-BC-HIST.csv are daily timeseries of channel inflow, outflow, and reservoir storage at each facility to calculate hydropower generation.
- ROWs correspond to datetime stamps
- COLUMNs correspond to GINDEX (grid cell index) in the mosartwmpy model
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