Development and application of a comprehensive simulation model to evaluate impacts of watershed structures and irrigation water use on streamflow and groundwater: the case of Wet Walnut Creek Watershed, Kansas, USA

Ramireddygari, Sreepathi R.; Sophocleous, Marios; Koelliker, J. K.; Perkins, Samuel P.; Govindaraju, Rao S.

doi:10.1016/s0022-1694(00)00295-x

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“…Former applications used a fixed water level throughout the simulation period (Arnold et al, 1999;Chung et al, 2010;Flipo et al, 2007b;Gomez et al, 2003;Ke, 2014;Kim et al, 2008;Monteil, 2011;Perkins and Sophocleous, 1999;Ramireddygari et al, 2000;Thierion et al, 2012). Saleh et al (2011) showed that this methodology not only leads to biased assessments of streamaquifer exchanges, but also to biased estimates of the nearriver piezometric head distributions.…”

Section: The Conductance Model At the Regional Scalementioning

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Continental hydrosystem modelling: the concept of nested stream–aquifer interfaces

Flipo

Mouhri

Labarthe

et al. 2014

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. Coupled hydrological-hydrogeological models, emphasising the importance of the stream-aquifer interface, are more and more used in hydrological sciences for pluridisciplinary studies aiming at investigating environmental issues. Based on an extensive literature review, stream-aquifer interfaces are described at five different scales: local [10 cm- . This led us to develop the concept of nested stream-aquifer interfaces, which extends the well-known vision of nested groundwater pathways towards the surface, where the mixing of low frequency processes and high frequency processes coupled with the complexity of geomorphological features and heterogeneities creates hydrological spiralling. This conceptual framework allows the identification of a hierarchical order of the multi-scale control factors of stream-aquifer hydrological exchanges, from the larger scale to the finer scale. The hyporheic corridor, which couples the river to its 3-D hyporheic zone, is then identified as the key component for scaling hydrological processes occurring at the interface. The identification of the hyporheic corridor as the support of the hydrological processes scaling is an important step for the development of regional studies, which is one of the main concerns for water practitioners and resources managers.In a second part, the modelling of the stream-aquifer interface at various scales is investigated with the help of the conductance model. Although the usage of the temperature as a tracer of the flow is a robust method for the assessment of stream-aquifer exchanges at the local scale, there is a crucial need to develop innovative methodologies for assessing stream-aquifer exchanges at the regional scale. After formulating the conductance model at the regional and intermediate scales, we address this challenging issue with the development of an iterative modelling methodology, which ensures the consistency of stream-aquifer exchanges between the intermediate and regional scales.Finally, practical recommendations are provided for the study of the interface using the innovative methodology MIM (Measurements-Interpolation-Modelling), which is graphically developed, scaling in space the three pools of methods needed to fully understand stream-aquifer interfaces at various scales. In the MIM space, stream-aquifer interfaces that can be studied by a given approach are localised. The efficiency of the method is demonstrated with two examples. The first one proposes an upscaling framework, structured around river reaches of ∼ 10-100 m, from the local to the watershed scale. The second example highlights the usefulness of space borne data to improve the assessment of streamaquifer exchanges at the regional and continental scales. We conclude that further developments in modelling and field measurements have to be undertaken at the regional scale to enable a proper modelling of stream-aquifer exchanges from the local to the continental scale.

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Section: The Conductance Model At the Regional Scalementioning

confidence: 99%

Continental hydrosystem modelling: the concept of nested stream–aquifer interfaces

Flipo

Mouhri

Labarthe

et al. 2014

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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“…Thus, it is our experience that linear model protocols do not reflect the need of large modelling projects in practice. Similarly, experiences from modelling in Kansas Ramireddygari et al, 2000;Sophocleous et al, 1999) suggest that it will be often required to introduce loops with repetition of parts of the modelling. In our case we had to change both some of the basic input data and to repeat the calibration and validation steps.…”

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“…To our knowledge the scientifically reported examples covering the largest areas are the 3000-4000 km 2 integrated models for the Danubian Lowland in Slovakia (Refsgaard et al, 1998), and catchments in Kansas (Sophocleous et al, 1999;Sophocleous and Perkins, 2000;Ramireddygari et al, 2000). Sophocleous and Perkins (2000) emphasise the advantages and discuss some of the methodological problems related to integrated, dynamic modelling.…”

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Methodology for construction, calibration and validation of a national hydrological model for Denmark

Henriksen

Troldborg

Nyegaard

et al. 2003

Journal of Hydrology

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“…Among them, Güntner et al (2004) and Malveira et al (2012) combined the explicit simulation of numerous small dams (lower than 100 000 m 3 ) with large dams (above 50 000 000 m 3 ) in north-eastern Brazil, and noted that the smaller dams reduced the water yield of the larger dams. Ramireddygari et al (2000) in the USA, Hughes and Mantel (2010) in South Africa and Nathan and Lowe (2012) in Australia, found that small farm dams induced a decrease of the annual discharge that could reach 10 %. Cudennec et al (2004), using a simpler approach based on a unit hydrograph, conducted a prospective study in north-western France and found that the decrease of river flows is limited to the downstream basin.…”

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Small farm dams: impact on river flows and sustainability in a context of climate change

Habets

Philippe

Martin³

et al. 2014

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. The repetition of droughts in France has led to a growing demand for irrigation water and consequently to an increase in requests for the construction of small farm dams. Although such dams are small, their accumulation in a basin affects river flows, because the water collected in these small farm dams is used for irrigation and thus does not contribute to river flow. In order to gain more insight into their impact on the annual and monthly discharges, especially during dry years, a small farm dam model was built and connected to a hydrometeorological model. Several scenarios with different volume capacities, filling catchment sizes and filling periods were tested for such dams. The results were analysed in a small basin in western France, where the pressure for building such dams is high, and then extended to the entire country. It was found that, due to the hydrometeorological conditions (mainly low precipitation compared to other regions in France), the development of small farm dams in north-western France would result in greater decreases in river flows and less efficient filling of small farm dams than in other regions. Therefore, such dams might not be as efficient as expected in supplying water to farmers when needed. Moreover, the ability to fill small farm dams is projected to decrease in a context of climate change, despite the uncertainty on the evolution of precipitation, thus worsening the situation.

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Development and application of a comprehensive simulation model to evaluate impacts of watershed structures and irrigation water use on streamflow and groundwater: the case of Wet Walnut Creek Watershed, Kansas, USA

Cited by 55 publications

References 5 publications

Continental hydrosystem modelling: the concept of nested stream–aquifer interfaces

Continental hydrosystem modelling: the concept of nested stream–aquifer interfaces

Methodology for construction, calibration and validation of a national hydrological model for Denmark

Small farm dams: impact on river flows and sustainability in a context of climate change

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