Sacramento River RAFT water temperature model simulations based on hypothetical reservoir perturbations in the historical record

We used a process-based water temperature model (RAFT, Pike et al., 2013)
to estimate the ability of reservoir discharge to mediate river
temperature heating processes impacting downstream locations (i.e.,
discharge-mediated temperature management) on California's Sacramento
River. This was done by modeling water temperatures over the historical
record (1990-2020) of model forcings and only perturbing reservoir
discharge levels on a daily time step, ranging from 3000 to 15000 cubic
feet per second as simulated at the Sacramento River at Wilkins Slough
USGS gauging station
(https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/11390500). Pike, A., E.
Danner, D. Boughton, F. Melton, R. Nemani, B. Rajagopalan, and S. Lindley.
2013. Forecasting river temperatures in real time using a stochastic
dynamics approach. Water Resources Research 49:5168-5182.