scholarly journals PCR-GLOBWB 2: a 5 arcmin global hydrological and water resources model

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 2429-2453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin H. Sutanudjaja ◽  
Rens van Beek ◽  
Niko Wanders ◽  
Yoshihide Wada ◽  
Joyce H. C. Bosmans ◽  
...  

Abstract. We present PCR-GLOBWB 2, a global hydrology and water resources model. Compared to previous versions of PCR-GLOBWB, this version fully integrates water use. Sector-specific water demand, groundwater and surface water withdrawal, water consumption, and return flows are dynamically calculated at every time step and interact directly with the simulated hydrology. PCR-GLOBWB 2 has been fully rewritten in Python and PCRaster Python and has a modular structure, allowing easier replacement, maintenance, and development of model components. PCR-GLOBWB 2 has been implemented at 5 arcmin resolution, but a version parameterized at 30 arcmin resolution is also available. Both versions are available as open-source codes on https://github.com/UU-Hydro/PCR-GLOBWB_model (Sutanudjaja et al., 2017a). PCR-GLOBWB 2 has its own routines for groundwater dynamics and surface water routing. These relatively simple routines can alternatively be replaced by dynamically coupling PCR-GLOBWB 2 to a global two-layer groundwater model and 1-D–2-D hydrodynamic models. Here, we describe the main components of the model, compare results of the 30 and 5 arcmin versions, and evaluate their model performance using Global Runoff Data Centre discharge data. Results show that model performance of the 5 arcmin version is notably better than that of the 30 arcmin version. Furthermore, we compare simulated time series of total water storage (TWS) of the 5 arcmin model with those observed with GRACE, showing similar negative trends in areas of prevalent groundwater depletion. Also, we find that simulated total water withdrawal matches reasonably well with reported water withdrawal from AQUASTAT, while water withdrawal by source and sector provide mixed results.

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin H. Sutanudjaja ◽  
Rens van Beek ◽  
Niko Wanders ◽  
Yoshihide Wada ◽  
Joyce H. C. Bosmans ◽  
...  

Abstract. We present PCR-GLOBWB 2, a global hydrology and water resources model. Compared to previous versions of PCR-GLOBWB, this version fully integrates water use. Sector-specific water demand, groundwater and surface water withdrawal, water consumption and return flows are dynamically calculated at every time step and interact directly with the simulated hydrology. PCR-GLOBWB 2 has been fully rewritten in Python and PCRaster-Python and has a modular structure, allowing easier replacement, maintenance, and development of model components. PCR-GLOBWB 2 has been implemented at 5 arc-minute resolution, but a version parameterized at 30 arc-minute resolution is also available. Both versions are available as open source codes on https://github.com/UU-Hydro/PCR-GLOBWB_model. PCR-GLOBWB 2 has its own routines for groundwater dynamics and surface water routing. These relatively simple routines can alternatively be replaced by dynamically coupling PCR-GLOBWB 2 to a global two-layer groundwater model and 1D-2D-hydrodynamic models, respectively. Here, we describe the main components of the model, compare results of the 30 arcminute and the 5 arc-minute versions and evaluate their model performance using GRDC discharge data. Results show that model performance of the 5 arc-minute version is notably better than that of the 30 arc-minute version. Furthermore, we compare simulated time series of total water storage (TWS) of the 5 arc-minute model with those observed with GRACE, showing similar negative trends in areas of prevalent groundwater depletion. Also, we find that simulated water withdrawal, by source and sector, matches reasonably well with reported water withdrawal from AQUASTAT.


2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 2153-2165 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Uhlenbrook ◽  
Y. Mohamed ◽  
A. S. Gragne

Abstract. Understanding catchment hydrological processes is essential for water resources management, in particular in data scarce regions. The Gilgel Abay catchment (a major tributary into Lake Tana, source of the Blue Nile) is undergoing intensive plans for water management, which is part of larger development plans in the Blue Nile basin in Ethiopia. To obtain a better understanding of the water balance dynamics and runoff generation mechanisms and to evaluate model transferability, catchment modeling has been conducted using the conceptual hydrological model HBV. Accordingly, the catchment of the Gilgel Abay has been divided into two gauged sub-catchments (Upper Gilgel Abay and Koga) and the un-gauged part of the catchment. All available data sets were tested for stationarity, consistency and homogeneity and the data limitations (quality and quantity) are discussed. Manual calibration of the daily models for three different catchment representations, i.e. (i) lumped, (ii) lumped with multiple vegetation zones, and (iii) semi-distributed with multiple vegetation and elevation zones, showed good to satisfactory model performances with Nash-Sutcliffe efficiencies Reff > 0.75 and > 0.6 for the Upper Gilgel Abay and Koga sub-catchments, respectively. Better model results could not be obtained with manual calibration, very likely due to the limited data quality and model insufficiencies. Increasing the computation time step to 15 and 30 days improved the model performance in both sub-catchments to Reff > 0.8. Model parameter transferability tests have been conducted by interchanging parameters sets between the two gauged sub-catchments. Results showed poor performances for the daily models (0.30 < Reff < 0.67), but better performances for the 15 and 30 days models, Reff > 0.80. The transferability tests together with a sensitivity analysis using Monte Carlo simulations (more than 1 million model runs per catchment representation) explained the different hydrologic responses of the two sub-catchments, which seems to be mainly caused by the presence of dambos in Koga sub-catchment. It is concluded that daily model transferability is not feasible, while it can produce acceptable results for the 15 and 30 days models. This is very useful for water resources planning and management, but not sufficient to capture detailed hydrological processes in an ungauged area.


2018 ◽  
Vol 246 ◽  
pp. 02023
Author(s):  
Jing Qin ◽  
Wen-long Niu ◽  
Wei Lu ◽  
Ling-yun Zhao ◽  
Wen-lian Gao

The calculation of water resources is the fundamental basis for legitimate utilization, effective protection, optimal configuration and optimal dispatch of water resources. Affected by climate change, economic development, and population expansion, the amount of water resources in Fengtai district, one of the central urban areas of Beijing, has undergone major changes. By comparing the results of the second investigation and evaluation of water resources (1956-1998), the paper analyzes the dynamic changes and causes of surface water resources, ground water resources and total water resources in Fengtai district in recent 61a (1956-2016). The results show that the surface water resources of Fengtai district in recent 61a is 37.978 million m3, which is 2.572 million m3 less than the previous investigation; the ground water resources is 92.959 million m3, a decrease of 13.848 million m3; the total water resources is 104.981 million m3, which is 13.830 million m3 less than the previous investigation. The gradual reduction of regional atmospheric precipitation is the main cause of the decline in surface runoff and rainfall infiltration recharge. At the same time, the continuous water-cutting of Yongding River (the biggest inflow river in Fengtai) since 2000 and the anti-seepage project implemented in 2010 further reduced the infiltration of river infiltration .


2012 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 643-652 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santatriniaina Denise Rasolomanana ◽  
Paul Lessard ◽  
Peter A. Vanrolleghem

To obtain greater precision in modelling small agricultural watersheds, a shorter simulation time step is beneficial. A daily time step better represents the dynamics of pollutants in the river and provides more realistic simulation results. However, with a daily evaluation performance, good fits are rarely obtained. With the Shuffled Complex Evolution (SCE) method embedded in the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT), two calibration approaches are available, single-objective or multi-objective optimization. The goal of the present study is to evaluate which approach can improve the daily performance with SWAT, in modelling flow (Q), total suspended solids (TSS) and total phosphorus (TP). The influence of weights assigned to the different variables included in the objective function has also been tested. The results showed that: (i) the model performance depends not only on the choice of calibration approach, but essentially on the influential parameters; (ii) the multi-objective calibration estimating at once all parameters related to all measured variables is the best approach to model Q, TSS and TP; (iii) changing weights does not improve model performance; and (iv) with a single-objective optimization, an excellent water quality modelling performance may hide a loss of performance of predicting flows and unbalanced internal model components.


2018 ◽  
Vol 769 ◽  
pp. 377-382
Author(s):  
Alexander Strelkov ◽  
Svetlana Teplykh ◽  
Pavel Gorshkalev ◽  
Anastasia Bystranova

The paper aims to assess fish fauna current state and water withdrawal impact on biological water resources. It also describes a plan of fish stock restoration designed for a certain real object to compensate for the damage caused and analyses results of its implementations.


2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Chafda Larasati ◽  
Aji Wijaya Abadi ◽  
M Galih Prakoso ◽  
Novanna Dwi S ◽  
Venny Vivid F ◽  
...  

Abstrak Sumberdaya air penting untuk pemenuhan kebutuhan semua makhluk hidup termasuk manusia. DAS Bodri menyediakan suplai air permukaan melalui sungai-sungai yang ada dalam DAS, yang dapat dimanfaatkan oleh penduduk sekitar. Seiring berjalannya waktu, DAS Bodri mengalami perubahan penggunaan lahan yang menyebabkan terjadinya peningkatan kebutuhan air dan terjadi ketidakseimbangan antara kebutuhan dan ketersediaan air permukaan. Tujuan dari penelitian ini, yaitu mengetahui keseimbangan antara kebutuhan air di masa yang akan datang dengan ketersediaan air permukaan di DAS Bodri tahun 2040. Perhitungan keseimbangan antara kebutuhan dan ketersediaan air permukaan dilakukan dengan membandingkan antara kebutuhan air total dan ketersediaan air permukaan. Parameter kebutuhan air total terdiri dari kebutuhan air domestik, fasilitas kesehatan, fasilitas pendidikan, fasilitas peribadatan, perkantoran, industri, pertokoan dan pasar, warung makan, peternakan, irigasi, dan tambak. Kebutuhan air di tahun mendatang diketahui melalui proyeksi secara eksponensial dan tetap dari data jumlah dalam perhitungan parameter. Kebutuhan air untuk aktivitas domestik dan nondomestik diestimasikan mencapai 2,44 miliar m3 pada tahun 2040. Hasil analisis neraca air menunjukkan bahwa status neraca air DAS Bodri tahun 2010-2019 mengalami defisiensi. Hal tersebut menunjukkan bahwa potensi sumberdaya air permukaan masih belum mencukupi untuk pemenuhan kebutuhan air di DAS Bodri hingga tahun 2040. Abstract Water resources play an important role in meeting the needs of all living things, including humans. The Bodri watershed provides surface water supply through rivers on the watershed, which the local residents can use and utilize. Over time, the Bodri watershed underwent landuse change, which led to an increase in water demand, resulting in an imbalance between water demand and surface water availability. Calculation of the balance between demand and surface water availability is done by comparing the total water demand and the surface water availability. This study aims to determine the balance between future water demand and surface water availability in the Bodri watershed in 2040. The parameters used to determine total water demand consist of water needs of the following sectors; domestic, health facilities, educational facilities, religious facilities, offices, industry, shops and markets, food stalls, livestock, irrigation, and ponds. In the coming year, water demand is known through projections exponentially and permanently from the amount of data in the calculation of parameters. Water demand for domestic and non-domestic activities is estimated to reach 2.44 billion m3 in 2040. The water balance analysis results show that the status of the Bodri watershed water balance in 2010-2019 is deficient. The potential for surface water resources is still insufficient to meet the water needs in the Bodri watershed until 2040.  


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 179-184
Author(s):  
Roh Santoso Budi Waspodo ◽  
Siti Komariah ◽  
Vita Ayu Kusuma Dewi

The used of water in Indonesia for various using disposed exceed water supply. One of the efforts to optimize limited water resources is optimimation watershed management with linear programming. Identification of surface water potential in Cicatih watershed, especially in sub-watershed of upper Cicatih, Cibojong river, estimate using GR4J model. This research using discharge data from PLTA Ubrug. Springwater identified based on data from DISTAMBEN. The observation discharge average in Cibojong river was 246 l/s/day and based on GR4J model was 2752 l/s/day. Avaiable discharge was 56241 l/s/day. Grow of the population estimated by exponent method, industry and irrigation area with regression linear. Software Lingo 8.0 was used to help optimize of wáter resources in Cicatih watershed. Based on the result, in 2025, 12 industries and 15784 ha area get the wáter allocation from surface water. About 1083817 people and 75402 ha area get from springwáter. The cost to access surface wáter is higher than in other sectors. It causes the industry to gets an allocation from surface wáter.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 5029-5052
Author(s):  
Bram Droppers ◽  
Wietse H. P. Franssen ◽  
Michelle T. H. van Vliet ◽  
Bart Nijssen ◽  
Fulco Ludwig

Abstract. Questions related to historical and future water resources and scarcity have been addressed by several macroscale hydrological models. One of these models is the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) model. However, further model developments were needed to holistically assess anthropogenic impacts on global water resources using VIC. Our study developed VIC-WUR, which extends the VIC model using (1) integrated routing, (2) surface and groundwater use for various sectors (irrigation, domestic, industrial, energy, and livestock), (3) environmental flow requirements for both surface and groundwater systems, and (4) dam operation. Global gridded datasets on sectoral demands were developed separately and used as an input for the VIC-WUR model. Simulated national water withdrawals were in line with reported Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) national annual withdrawals (adjusted R2 > 0.8), both per sector and per source. However, trends in time for domestic and industrial water withdrawal were mixed compared with previous studies. Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) monthly terrestrial water storage anomalies were well represented (global mean root-mean-squared error, RMSE, values of 1.9 and 3.5 mm for annual and interannual anomalies respectively), whereas groundwater depletion trends were overestimated. The implemented anthropogenic impact modules increased simulated streamflow performance for 370 of the 462 anthropogenically impacted Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC) monitoring stations, mostly due to the effects of reservoir operation. An assessment of environmental flow requirements indicates that global water withdrawals have to be severely limited (by 39 %) to protect aquatic ecosystems, especially with respect to groundwater withdrawals. VIC-WUR has potential for studying the impacts of climate change and anthropogenic developments on current and future water resources and sector-specific water scarcity. The additions presented here make the VIC model more suited for fully integrated worldwide water resource assessments.


2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 494-503
Author(s):  
Vo Ngoc Quynh Tram ◽  
Nguyen Duy Liem ◽  
Nguyen Kim Loi

Abstract Estimating the volume of water resources has important significance in assessing water availability in a basin, particularly in mountainous areas. The Poko catchment, a sub-basin of Se San river basin, is located in the Central Highland of Vietnam with an area of about 3,210 km2. This study focused on evaluating the performance of SWAT model and baseflow filtering algorithm in simulating surface flow and baseflow in Poko catchment. The model was calibrated and validated for the period 1996–2004 and 2005–2013, respectively, using the observed water discharge data at Dak Mot stream gauge. Statistical measures including R2 (coefficient of determination), NSI (Nash–Sutcliffe index), and PBIAS (percent bias) indicated good performance of the model in simulating water discharge on monthly time step during the calibration and validation period. Using baseflow filtering algorithm with filter parameter (0.925), surface flow and baseflow were separated from water discharge. The results demonstrated good performance in capturing the patterns of surface flow and baseflow, which confirmed the appropriateness of the model for future scenario simulation. These findings provide useful information for water resources planning in Poko catchment, in particular, and other basins, which have a hydro-meteorological response similar to this catchment, in general.


Author(s):  
William M. Alley ◽  
Rosemarie Alley

Much of the book’s discussion thus far has focused on groundwater depletion. However, as wells continue to pump, the source of water increasingly comes from surface water. This chapter examines how depletion of even a small part of groundwater storage can have large impacts on surface-water resources. Yet despite this critical connection, different laws govern surface water and groundwater. Solving this complex water resource relationship also involves accounting for the delayed effects of pumping on surface-water resources. The ongoing challenges for conjunctive management are illustrated by the South Platte River basin of Colorado, as well as the Arkansas and Republican Rivers.


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