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Studies of the variations of the level of natural water bodies are often based on the concept of a “stochastic reservoir”. The stochastic reservoir is a physically-based mathematical model of the water level variations in a closed reservoir. In this paper the stochastic reservoir is considered as a hydrological system governed by two input processes viz. river inflow and an effective evaporation from the water body (evaporation minus precipitation); a state variable viz. the water level variations; and an output process viz. the outflow from a water body. It is assumed that input processes are auto- and mutually correlated. The outflow is a function of the water level variations. This definition of a “stochastic reservoir” is very similar to the one suggested by Lloyd [15].
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Frolov, A.V. (2002). The Caspian Sea as a Stochastic Reservoir. In: Bolgov, M.V., Gottschalk, L., Krasovskaia, I., Moore, R.J. (eds) Hydrological Models for Environmental Management. NATO Science Series, vol 79. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0470-1_8
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