Assessing regional‐scale spatio‐temporal patterns of groundwater–surface water interactions using a coupled SWAT‐MODFLOW model

Bailey, Ryan T.; Wible, Tyler; Arabi, Mazdak; Records, Rosemary M.; Ditty, Jeffrey

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“…DSSAT-RZWQM (Ma et al 2008), WOFOST-SWAP (Van Walsum 2011), DSSAT-SWAP (Dokoohaki et al 2016), and Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT)-MOD-FLOW (Bailey et al 2016) have been applied to problems related to AWM. DSSAT-RZWQM (Ma et al 2008), WOFOST-SWAP (Van Walsum 2011), DSSAT-SWAP (Dokoohaki et al 2016), and Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT)-MOD-FLOW (Bailey et al 2016) have been applied to problems related to AWM.…”

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“…This is generally approached through the adoption of farm management practices and technologies that are meant to increase water productivity, often cutting across traditional systems of study such as agricultural economics, hydrology, and agronomy. Rather than starting from scratch, research teams often choose to integrate existing models in whole or part (e.g., Kendall 2009;Barthel et al 2012;Dodder et al 2015;Bailey et al 2016;Hrozencik et al 2017, among many others). Advances in computational power enable researchers to assimilate more aspects of AWM into models, which in practice results in the need for models to encompass systems that intersect several disciplines.…”

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Transition Pathways to Sustainable Agricultural Water Management: A Review of Integrated Modeling Approaches

Haacker

Sharda

Cano

et al. 2019

J American Water Resour Assoc

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Agricultural water management (AWM) is an interdisciplinary concern, cutting across traditional domains such as agronomy, climatology, geology, economics, and sociology. Each of these disciplines has developed numerous process‐based and empirical models for AWM. However, models that simulate all major hydrologic, water quality, and crop growth processes in agricultural systems are still lacking. As computers become more powerful, more researchers are choosing to integrate existing models to account for these major processes rather than building new cross‐disciplinary models. Model integration carries the hope that, as in a real system, the sum of the model will be greater than the parts. However, models based upon simplified and unrealistic assumptions of physical or empirical processes can generate misleading results which are not useful for informing policy. In this article, we use literature and case studies from the High Plains Aquifer and Southeastern United States regions to elucidate the challenges and opportunities associated with integrated modeling for AWM and recommend conditions in which to use integrated models. Additionally, we examine the potential contributions of integrated modeling to AWM — the actual practice of conserving water while maximizing productivity. Editor's note: This paper is part of the featured series on Optimizing Ogallala Aquifer Water Use to Sustain Food Systems. See the February 2019 issue for the introduction and background to the series.

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Transition Pathways to Sustainable Agricultural Water Management: A Review of Integrated Modeling Approaches

Haacker

Sharda

Cano

et al. 2019

J American Water Resour Assoc

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“…The outputs from the coupled surface and subsurface modeling include surface runoff to streams, lateral flow to streams, groundwater flow to streams, recharge to groundwater, total soil water in the watershed, seepage from streams to the aquifer, total groundwater contained in the watershed, and total water added to streams. The SWAT-MODFLOW (Bailey et al, 2016) coupled hydrologic model will be used to simulate the surface and subsurface hydrology of the watershed where the Tin Pan site is located. The focus will be on the subbasin where the Tin Pan mine is located.…”

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Conceptual Model for Hydrology-Based Geomorphic Evapotranspiration Covers for Reclamation of Mine Land

Zhang¹,

Bugosh²,

Tesfa³

et al. 2018

JASMR

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Currently, there are about half a million abandoned mine sites in the U.S. and an estimated 15,000 in New Mexico alone. Surface mining imposes severe ecological effects on the land because it not only alters the vegetation, soils, bedrock, and landforms, but also changes the surface hydrology, groundwater, and flow paths that ultimately result in degraded ecology and water quality. Two relatively new methodologies, fluvial geomorphic landform design and evapotranspiration (ET) waste covers, offer solutions to reclaim these sites for long-term, maintenance-free reclamation. GeoFluv TM is a specific geomorphic grading design method that uses natural analogues for post-mining landscapes and uses design input values taken from stable natural landscapes to make a reclamation design that provides hydrological function, supports ecosystem integrity, and is cost-effective, sustainable, and more visually attractive. It has documented ability to produce surface runoff water quality at least equal to adjacent undisturbed lands and has been used for disturbed lands, including active and abandoned mine sites. Surface ET covers have been used to manage the subsurface hydrology above landfills, waste sites, and mine lands. ET covers protect the underlying materials against erosion, provide a medium for vegetation growth, store precipitation within the cover, and release the stored water into atmosphere so that the infiltration of precipitation is minimized. A conceptual design study is carried out based on an actual, typical abandoned mine site near Raton, New Mexico, to which common problem conditions at abandoned mine sites are assumed. The purpose of this study is to present the concept that covers can be designed by integrating two remediation technologies (geomorphic grading and ET cover) as a geomorphic ET (GET) cover to improve performance. The overall shape of the GET cover can mimic the natural topography of the surrounding area, while the thickness and layering of the cover can be optimized for best vegetation growth and infiltration control. The application of GET cover technology on mine land is expected to substantially improve the reclamation effects by coupling the benefits of the geomorphic cover (drainage reduction, runoff management, vegetation diversity) with the benefits of ET covers (vegetation growth and sustainability, percolation reduction, protection of surface and groundwater). Additional

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“…The SWAT model is particularly limited in terms of dealing with GW flow, due to its semidistributed internal nature, whereas MODFLOW needs net recharge in a distributed form, which is basic information to model GW flow. Therefore, the coupling or integration of these two models allows both GW and SW hydrological components to be reasonably quantified in a single modelling framework, as supported by common model evaluation statistics (see, e.g., Bailey et al, ; Wei, Bailey, Records, Wible, & Arabi, ; Molina‐Navarro et al, ; Aliyari et al, ; Chunn, Faramarzi, Smerdon, & Alessi, ; Liu et al, ).…”

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“…In our case, we take the upper creek basin of Del Azul that has a surface area of 1,024 km 2 in order to check the conceptual model of the system. The coupled SWAT–MODFLOW modelling code of Bailey et al () is employed to improve the calibration of the SWAT model to reproduce the spatial and temporal patterns of the water balance at a daily scale, as well as to generate recommendations for modelling the water balance and GW–SW interactions in the plains.…”

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Spatio‐temporal patterns of the interaction between groundwater and surface water in plains

Ochoa

Sierra

Vives³

et al. 2020

Hydrological Processes

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The study of the dynamics of anthropic disturbances that have an effect on the hydrological systems in plains requires integral simulation tools for their diagnosis. The objective of this article is, first, to analyse and reproduce the spatio‐temporal interactions between groundwater (GW) and surface water, net recharge, GW level, surface run‐off, and evapotranspiration in the upper creek basin of Del Azul, which is located in the centre of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and second, to obtain insights to apply the methodology to other similar situations. For this purpose, a model coupling the semidistributed hydrological model (Soil and Water Assessment Tool [SWAT]) and the hydrogeological model (MODFLOW) has been used. A simulation was carried out for a period of 13 years (2003–2015) on a daily scale. The application of the SWAT–MODFLOW coupling gave good results based on the adjustment between the calculated flows and levels, reaching a Nash–Sutcliffe of 0.6 and R20.6 at the Seminario hydrometric station located at the watershed outlet point. According to the annual average balance, out of the total rainfall, evapotranspiration accounts for 85%, recharge accounts for 10.2%, and surface run‐off accounts for 4.8%. Annual and monthly trends of the stream–aquifer interaction were determined, obtaining on average an annual GW discharge of 34 mm and an annual average recharge of the stream to the aquifer of 1.4 mm. Monthly GW discharges are higher in winter–spring (July to December with an average of 3.3 mm) and lower in summer–autumn (January to June with an average of 2.8 mm). The monthly average recharge of the stream towards the aquifer varies from 0.02 to 0.36 mm and is higher in March, May, and August, when water excess is produced in the basin. Through the analysis of coupled modelling, it is possible to analyse and reproduce the spatio‐temporal transitions of flow existing between the stream, the hyporheic zone, and the aquifer.

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Assessing regional‐scale spatio‐temporal patterns of groundwater–surface water interactions using a coupled SWAT‐MODFLOW model

Cited by 221 publications

References 67 publications

Transition Pathways to Sustainable Agricultural Water Management: A Review of Integrated Modeling Approaches

Transition Pathways to Sustainable Agricultural Water Management: A Review of Integrated Modeling Approaches

Conceptual Model for Hydrology-Based Geomorphic Evapotranspiration Covers for Reclamation of Mine Land

Spatio‐temporal patterns of the interaction between groundwater and surface water in plains

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