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GSFLOW Coupled Groundwater/Surface-Water Model: Background and Possible Applications in the Great Valley
Great Valley Water Resources Science Forum
October 7, 2009
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Why was GSFLOW developed?
To improve our ability to simulate and understandWatershed hydrologic processes and
water availabilityLinks between hydrologic processes and
climate, vegetation, land uses, water-supply development, and ecology
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Uses of GSFLOW
Determine flow rates and storage volumes of water throughout a watershed—from the tree canopy to deep aquifers:Evaporation and plant transpirationSoil infiltration and interflowSnowpack generation and depletionGroundwater rechargeStreamflow generation
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Components of Streamflow for a Year of Below-Average Precipitation,
Sagehen Creek, Truckee, CA
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Uses of GSFLOW
Simulate both low-flow (baseflow and drought) and high-flow (storm) conditions within a watershed
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Uses of GSFLOW
Simulate hydrologic response to changing land uses, population growth, and possible future climate conditions
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Projected average maximum daily temperature, Tahoe Basin, California and Nevada
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What is GSFLOW? A Basin-Scale Model Based on the USGS PRMS Watershed Model and
MODFLOW Groundwater Flow Model
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Enhanced Modeling Capabilities Developed for GSFLOW
Unsaturated-zone flow below soils, streams, and lakes
Flow, storage, and ET in the unsaturated zone and recharge to the water table in response to infiltration
at land surface
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Enhanced Modeling Capabilities Developed for GSFLOW
Enhanced soil-zone dynamics (capillary, gravity-flow, and preferential-flow reservoirs)
Enhanced streamflow simulation
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Some of the Hydrologic Processes Simulated
Potential ET Canopy interception Snowpack accumulation, melting, sublimation Surface-water runoff Interflow Infiltration to soil zone ET within soil zone 1-D Unsaturated-zone flow, storage, and ET 3-D Groundwater flow Streamflow Lakes
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Climatic and Hydrologic Drivers
Precipitation Air Temperature Solar radiation Groundwater withdrawals Groundwater flow and water-level
conditions along boundary of simulated area
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Spatial Discretization—PRMS hydrologic response units (HRUs) are intersected with MODFLOW finite-difference cells
Sagehen Creek watershed, Truckee, CA
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Some Important Design Criteria for GSFLOW Development
Calculate and provide detailed water-budget information for the various hydrologic processes in both space and time
Ensure that the model conserves mass Allow simulations using only PRMS or
MODFLOW to facilitate initial calibration of model parameters prior to a full GSFLOW (coupled-model) simulation
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Initial GSFLOW Applications by the USGS
Trout Lake Watershed, WI Black Earth Creek Watershed, WI Spring Creek Watershed, PA Incline Basin near Lake Tahoe, Nevada Walker Lake Watershed, NV Santa Rosa Plain, northern CA Rialto-Colton Basin, southern CA
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Possible Applications in the Great Valley
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Opequon Creek Watershed
Link the transient groundwater-flow model of Opequon Creek watershed with a PRMS model
Opequon Creek
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Benefits Improved representation of hydrologic
processes in the watershed and links among land-surface, subsurface, and surface-water hydrologic systems
Improved water budgets throughout all hydrologic components of the watershed
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Data Considerations
Climate inputs: Daily precipitation and air-temperature data
Land-surface processes: EvapotranspirationCanopy interceptionSnowpack dynamicsSurface runoffSoil-zone processes
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Data Considerations
Streamflow and Springs Subsurface processes:
Unsaturated-zone flowGroundwater flow, including wells
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Discretization of Watershed:
PRMS HRUs could be coincident with MODFLOW cells, but not required
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Calibration Considerations
A multistep process:PRMS transient (daily) calibrationMODFLOW steady-state calibrationCoupled GSFLOW transient (daily)
calibration Calibration data:
StreamflowGroundwater levels
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GSFLOW Code and Documentation Report
Available online:
USGS Water Resources Groundwater Software webpage
http://water.usgs.gov/software/lists/groundwater/
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Questions?