Physically based river basin modelling within a GIS: the LISFLOOD model

Abstract

Although many geographical information systems (GISs) are very advanced in data processing and display, current GIS are not capable of physically based modelling. Especially, simulating transport of water and pollutants through landscapes is a problem in a GIS environment. A number of specific routing methods are needed in a GIS for hydrologic modelling, amongst these are the numerical solutions of the Saint‐Venant equations, such as the kinematic wave approximation for transport of surface water in a landscape. The PCRaster Spatial Modelling language is a GIS capable of dynamic modelling. It has been extended recently with a kinematic wave approximation simulation tool to allow for physically based water flow modelling. The LISFLOOD model is an example of a physically based model written using the PCRaster GIS environment. The LISFLOOD model simulates river discharge in a drainage basin as a function of spatial data on topography, soils and land cover. Although hydrological modelling capabilities have largely increased, there is still a need for development of other routing methods, such as a diffusion wave. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Development of a Combined Drought Indicator to detect agricultural drought in Europe

“…The soil moisture is obtained using the LISFLOOD model (De Roo et al, 2000). LISFLOOD is a distributed hydrological precipitation-runoff model that is capable of simulating the hydrological processes that occur in a catchment.…”

Development of a Combined Drought Indicator to detect agricultural drought in Europe

“…The soil moisture is obtained using the LISFLOOD model (De Roo et al, 2000). LISFLOOD is a distributed hydrological precipitation-runoff model that is capable of simulating the hydrological processes that occur in a catchment.…”

Relationship between ecological condition and ecosystem services in European rivers, lakes and coastal waters

“…Obviously its accuracy depends on the quality of the estimation of water availability and water abstractions. In Europe several complex hydrological models are available at the continental and the river basin scale that can provide reliable estimations of the available water resources besides the Budyko equation, such as LISFLOOD (De Roo et al, 2000, De Roo et al, 2012) and PCR-GLOBWB (Sperna Weiland et al, 2010). The simple Budyko equation used here, however, has proven reliable in Europe for estimating long-term annual average water surplus availability.…”

State updating of a distributed hydrological model with Ensemble Kalman Filtering: effects of updating frequency and observation network density on forecast accuracy

“…Therefore, it makes sense to update those rather insensitive model states. The reason for this behaviour might be the limited model structure, which is similar to other PCRaster operational hydrological applications like the LISFLOOD model (de Roo et al, 2000;Salamon and Feyen, 2009), where the individual neighbouring model cells are not connected by means of interflow and regional groundwater flow, but only drained by some sort of sheet flow via the routing states. This means that the SM, UZ and LZ model states are only controlled by the spatial variation of rainfall.…”

Development of a Combined Drought Indicator to detect agricultural drought in Europe

“…The soil moisture is obtained using the LISFLOOD model (De Roo et al, 2000). LISFLOOD is a distributed hydrological precipitation-runoff model that is capable of simulating the hydrological processes that occur in a catchment.…”

Relationship between ecological condition and ecosystem services in European rivers, lakes and coastal waters

“…Obviously its accuracy depends on the quality of the estimation of water availability and water abstractions. In Europe several complex hydrological models are available at the continental and the river basin scale that can provide reliable estimations of the available water resources besides the Budyko equation, such as LISFLOOD (De Roo et al, 2000, De Roo et al, 2012) and PCR-GLOBWB (Sperna Weiland et al, 2010). The simple Budyko equation used here, however, has proven reliable in Europe for estimating long-term annual average water surplus availability.…”

State updating of a distributed hydrological model with Ensemble Kalman Filtering: effects of updating frequency and observation network density on forecast accuracy

“…Therefore, it makes sense to update those rather insensitive model states. The reason for this behaviour might be the limited model structure, which is similar to other PCRaster operational hydrological applications like the LISFLOOD model (de Roo et al, 2000;Salamon and Feyen, 2009), where the individual neighbouring model cells are not connected by means of interflow and regional groundwater flow, but only drained by some sort of sheet flow via the routing states. This means that the SM, UZ and LZ model states are only controlled by the spatial variation of rainfall.…”

Development of a Combined Drought Indicator to detect agricultural drought in Europe

“…The soil moisture is obtained using the LISFLOOD model (De Roo et al, 2000). LISFLOOD is a distributed hydrological precipitation-runoff model that is capable of simulating the hydrological processes that occur in a catchment.…”

Relationship between ecological condition and ecosystem services in European rivers, lakes and coastal waters

“…Obviously its accuracy depends on the quality of the estimation of water availability and water abstractions. In Europe several complex hydrological models are available at the continental and the river basin scale that can provide reliable estimations of the available water resources besides the Budyko equation, such as LISFLOOD (De Roo et al, 2000, De Roo et al, 2012) and PCR-GLOBWB (Sperna Weiland et al, 2010). The simple Budyko equation used here, however, has proven reliable in Europe for estimating long-term annual average water surplus availability.…”

State updating of a distributed hydrological model with Ensemble Kalman Filtering: effects of updating frequency and observation network density on forecast accuracy

“…Therefore, it makes sense to update those rather insensitive model states. The reason for this behaviour might be the limited model structure, which is similar to other PCRaster operational hydrological applications like the LISFLOOD model (de Roo et al, 2000;Salamon and Feyen, 2009), where the individual neighbouring model cells are not connected by means of interflow and regional groundwater flow, but only drained by some sort of sheet flow via the routing states. This means that the SM, UZ and LZ model states are only controlled by the spatial variation of rainfall.…”