TY - JOUR
T1 - Integrated Hydrological Modeling to Analyze the Effects of Precipitation on Surface Water and Groundwater Hydrologic Processes in a Small Watershed
AU - Paudel, Sabin
AU - Benjankar, Rohan
N1 - We acknowledge Danish Hydraulic Institute (DHI) for providing MIKE SHE and MIKE Hydro software for the study. We would like to thank SIUE Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URCA) student, Abin Paudel for helping to analyze NOAA precipitation data. The comments from the reviewers’ earlier versions helped us to improve the manuscript significantly. Sabin Paudel is funded through SIUE Civil Engineering Department and Graduate School during his study period. We also acknowledge Ryan Fries and Yan Qi for constructive comments in an earlier version of the manuscript.
Acknowledgments: We acknowledge Danish Hydraulic Institute (DHI) for providing MIKE SHE and MIKE Hydro software for the study. We would like to thank SIUE Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URCA) student, Abin Paudel for helping to analyze NOAA precipitation data. The comments from the reviewers’ earlier versions helped us to improve the manuscript significantly. Sabin Paudel is funded through SIUE Civil Engineering Department and Graduate School during his study period. We also acknowledge Ryan Fries and Yan Qi for constructive comments in an earlier version of the manuscript.
PY - 2022/2
Y1 - 2022/2
N2 - The main objective of this study is to evaluate the performance of the integrated hydrological model, MIKE SHE in a small watershed to analyze the effect of two different precipitation sources on model outputs (groundwater elevation and surface water flows). The model was calibrated and validated with observed groundwater elevations and surface water flows measured at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) gage stations in the basin. The model calibration performance for surface water flows (R = 0.80, MAE= 0.20 m3/s, BIAS = −0.14 m3/s, NSE = 0.59) and groundwater elevations (R = 0.74, MAE = 0.45 m, BIAS = 0.08 m, NSE = 0.35) showed that the model was able to predict hydrological processes based on forcing variables in a small watershed. The analysis did not show the model with precipitation at the nearer (NOAA-Edwardsville) gauge station has better performance than the farther gauge station (NOAA-St. Louis). The quantitative analyses for the most sensitive model output variable suggested that precipitation uncertainties had noticeable impacts on surface water flows (0.81% to 11.19%), than groundwater elevations (0.06% to 0.07%), with an average of 6.71% and 0.66%, respectively. Our results showed noticeable differences in simulated surface water flows in spring (12.9%) and winter (36%) seasons compared to summer (11.4%) and fall (4.6%) as a result of difference (6% to 18%) in precipitation, which indicated that uncertainties in precipitation impact simulated surface water flows in a small watershed vary with different seasons. Our analyses have shown that precipitation affects the simulated hydrological processes and care should be taken while selecting input datasets (i.e., precipitation) for better hydrological model performance, specifically for surface water flows.
AB - The main objective of this study is to evaluate the performance of the integrated hydrological model, MIKE SHE in a small watershed to analyze the effect of two different precipitation sources on model outputs (groundwater elevation and surface water flows). The model was calibrated and validated with observed groundwater elevations and surface water flows measured at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) gage stations in the basin. The model calibration performance for surface water flows (R = 0.80, MAE= 0.20 m3/s, BIAS = −0.14 m3/s, NSE = 0.59) and groundwater elevations (R = 0.74, MAE = 0.45 m, BIAS = 0.08 m, NSE = 0.35) showed that the model was able to predict hydrological processes based on forcing variables in a small watershed. The analysis did not show the model with precipitation at the nearer (NOAA-Edwardsville) gauge station has better performance than the farther gauge station (NOAA-St. Louis). The quantitative analyses for the most sensitive model output variable suggested that precipitation uncertainties had noticeable impacts on surface water flows (0.81% to 11.19%), than groundwater elevations (0.06% to 0.07%), with an average of 6.71% and 0.66%, respectively. Our results showed noticeable differences in simulated surface water flows in spring (12.9%) and winter (36%) seasons compared to summer (11.4%) and fall (4.6%) as a result of difference (6% to 18%) in precipitation, which indicated that uncertainties in precipitation impact simulated surface water flows in a small watershed vary with different seasons. Our analyses have shown that precipitation affects the simulated hydrological processes and care should be taken while selecting input datasets (i.e., precipitation) for better hydrological model performance, specifically for surface water flows.
KW - Groundwater
KW - Integrated hydrological modeling
KW - MIKE SHE
KW - Precipitation sources
KW - Surface water
KW - Watershed
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U2 - 10.3390/hydrology9020037
DO - 10.3390/hydrology9020037
M3 - Article
SN - 2306-5338
VL - 9
JO - Hydrology
JF - Hydrology
IS - 2
M1 - 37
ER -