A practical approach for numerical modeling of a complex and data-limited hydrological system
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-1-2023
Abstract
By their nature, wetlands represent an ecosystem base for many concurrent heterogeneous interactions, where the mission of numerical modeling requires a wide range of consistent and reliable datasets from various sources, spatially and temporally. Such a mission usually collides with the existence of tremendous missing in time-series dataset(s). In this context, MIKE SHE was used to construct an integrated surface-subsurface flow model for the Paya Indah wetland in Malaysia where huge gaps exist in the historical datasets of water level and flow rate. To calibrate and validate the model to a satisfactory level, a tri-criteria simulation approach was applied to overcome the occasional missing values in these datasets. This goal was accomplished by calibrating the surface water level and channel flow while simultaneously matching the steady-state subsurface portion of the system wherever water table depth data allowed. Quantitatively, the integrated model scored the highest values of R (0.765 - 0.927) and CE (0.748 - 0.828) during the validation. However, large RMSE values were calculated for the flow rate during calibration at SWL2 (outlet; 0.766) and during validation at Langat River (0.780). This bias was attributed to the low or occasional absence of variation in the historical time-series datasets necessary for the simulation process.
Keywords
Evapotranspiration, Lake-aquifer interaction, MIKE SHE modeling, Peatland, Wetland conservation
Divisions
GEOLOGY
Funders
Universiti Malaya,Department of Irrigation and Drainage of Malaysia (DID)
Publication Title
Hydrology Research
Volume
54
Issue
11
Publisher
IWA Publishing
Publisher Location
REPUBLIC-EXPORT BLDG, UNITS 1 04 & 1 05, 1 CLOVE CRESCENT, LONDON, ENGLAND