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Coupling a groundwater model with a land surface model to improve water and energy cycle simulation
- Source :
- Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Vol 16, Iss 12, Pp 4707-4723 (2012)
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Copernicus GmbH, 2012.
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Abstract
- The water and energy cycles interact, making them generally closely related. Land surface models (LSMs) can describe the water and energy cycles of the land surface, but their description of the subsurface water processes is oversimplified, and lateral groundwater flow is ignored. Groundwater models (GWMs) well describe the dynamic movement of subsurface water flow, but they cannot depict the physical mechanism of the evapotranspiration (ET) process in detail. In this study, a coupled model of groundwater with simple biosphere (GWSiB) is developed based on the full coupling of a typical land surface model (SiB2) and a three-dimensional variably saturated groundwater model (AquiferFlow). In this model, the infiltration, ET and energy transfer are simulated by SiB2 via the soil moisture results given by the groundwater flow model. The infiltration and ET results are applied iteratively to drive the groundwater flow model. The developed model is then applied to study water cycle processes in the middle reaches of the Heihe River Basin in the northwest of China. The model is validated through data collected at three stations in the study area. The stations are located in a shallow groundwater depth zone, a deeper groundwater depth zone and an agricultural irrigation area. The study results show that the coupled model can well depict the land surface and groundwater interaction and can more comprehensively and accurately simulate the water and energy cycles compared with uncoupled models.
- Subjects :
- lcsh:GE1-350
Hydrology
Groundwater flow
lcsh:T
lcsh:Geography. Anthropology. Recreation
Groundwater recharge
lcsh:Technology
lcsh:TD1-1066
lcsh:G
Evapotranspiration
Environmental science
lcsh:Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
Water cycle
Subsurface flow
Groundwater model
Water content
lcsh:Environmental sciences
Groundwater
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16077938
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Vol 16, Iss 12, Pp 4707-4723 (2012)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....171ba1323888c77b9e7ea0fb570a4e25