Overview of the Reservoir System Editor

The Reservoir System Editor is used to create explicit system storage balances for selected reservoir systems. The editor is very similar to the Operations tab of the Reservoir Editor ("The Reservoir Editor's Operations Tab"). An example of the Reservoir System Editor is shown in "Figure: Reservoir System Editor - New Reservoir System" and reflects the example data for the explicit storage balance method previously discussed in "Explicit System Storage Balance Method".

As previously discussed, a reservoir system is implicitly created when two or more reservoirs are operating in tandem or when parallel reservoirs are operating together for a common downstream location. For system operations, you can either accept the implicit default system storage balance or you can create and define one or more explicit System Storage Balance schemes. For each system storage balance scheme you develop, you must define the System Storage Zones and the distribution of storage across the individual reservoirs (similar to the concept of Reservoir Operation sets discussed in "Reservoir Operation Sets").

The remainder of this chapter will discuss the Reservoir System Editor in detail and will provide instructions for specifying explicit system storage balance data.