norman l. miller, raj singh, charles brush, jay famiglietti, hans-peter plag
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Groundwater Monitoring and Management for Sustainability : California Pilot Test and Transfer to the Nile Basin. Norman L. Miller, Raj Singh, Charles Brush, Jay Famiglietti, Hans-Peter Plag University of California, Berkeley & Berkeley National Laboratory - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Groundwater Monitoring and Management for Sustainability:California Pilot Test and Transfer to the Nile Basin
Norman L. Miller, Raj Singh, Charles Brush, Jay Famiglietti, Hans-Peter Plag
University of California, Berkeley & Berkeley National Laboratory
Modeling Support Branch, California Department of Water Resources
Hydrologic Modeling Center, University of California, Irvine
Nevada Geodetic Laboratory, University of Nevada, Reno
IGCP 565 4rd Annual Meeting
University of Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
22 November 2011
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Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change Special Report on Emissions Scenarios
SRES
IPCC 2001
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SENSITIVITY OF SNOWFED HYDROCLIMATE TO A +3ºC WARMING … Rain? or Snow?
•What fraction of each year’s precipitation historically fell on days with average temperatures just below freezing?
Less vulnerable More vulnerable
Computed from UW’s VIC model daily INPUTS Courtesy Mike Dettinger.
+3
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Images from: http://education.usgs.gov/california
Groundwater recharge—precipitation/elevation relationship
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Statistically Downscaled Temperature and Precipitation
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Sacramento-Delta, 1242m, 1181km2
Kings - Pine Flat, 2274m, 4292km2
Merced - Pohono Br, 2490m, 891km2
NF American - NF Dam, 1402m, 950km2
Feather - Oroville, 1563m, 9989km2
Analysis of the Hydrologic Response
• Miller et al. 2003 • National Weather
Service – River Forecast System Sacramento Soil Moisture Accounting Model (Burnash 1973)
• Anderson Snow Model for computing snow accumulation and ablation (Anderson 1973)
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Diminishing Sierra Snowpack% Remaining, Relative to 1961-1990
Miller et al. 2003
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•Approach:•Recreate drought scenarios considering historic data
•Managed Surface Water Drought Scenarios • 10 year spin-up; • Duration: 10, 20, 30, 60 year managed droughts• Intensity: Dry, Very Dry, Critical defined as 30, 50, 70 % effective reduction• 30 year rebound period
• All simulations used fixed 1973-2003 precipitation, urban demands, cropping etc.
Drought ExperimentsDrought Experiments
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Analysis of Snowpack Reduction Impacts on California Groundwater Water Infrastructure
Using DWR C2VSIM Model
C2VSIM - California Central Valley Simulation Model
Domain: ~ 20,000 square miles
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FrameworkFinite Element Grid
– 3 layers– 1393 nodes– 1392 elements
Surface Water System– 75 river reaches– 2 lakes– 97 surface water diversion
points– 6 bypasses
Land Use Process– 21 subregions– 4 Land Use Types
• Agriculture• Urban• Native• Riparian
Simulation periods– 10/1921-9/2003 (<8 min)– 10/1972-9/2003 (<4 min)
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Hydraulic Conductivity
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C2VSIM Performance – HeadsR305 – Initial Calibration
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C2VSIM Performance - Flows
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BASELINE
Relative WT Change (Feet)
Climate simulations using the IPCC SRES output indicates California Snowpack will be reduced by 60-90% by 2100.
Simulating drought scenarios acts as an analogue to climate warming and provides us with a means to analyze impacts.
Central Valley Water Table ‘Relative’ ResponseCentral Valley Water Table ‘Relative’ ResponseJoint LBNL-CDWR Drought Simulation
•Baseline - no surface water reduction
•Drought - 30 - 70 percent surface water reduction
•All simulations used fixed 1973-2003 precipitation, urban demands, cropping etc.
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10 YEARS
Miller et al. 2006
Relative WT Change (Feet)
DRY
30 PERCENT EFFECTIVE REDUCTION IN MANAGED SURFACE FLOW.
Central Valley Water Table ‘Relative’ ResponseCentral Valley Water Table ‘Relative’ ResponseJoint LBNL-CDWR Drought Simulation
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20 YEARS
Miller et al. 2006
Relative WT Change (Feet)
DRY
30 PERCENT EFFECTIVE REDUCTION IN MANAGED SURFACE FLOW.
Central Valley Water Table ‘Relative’ ResponseCentral Valley Water Table ‘Relative’ ResponseJoint LBNL-CDWR Drought Simulation
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30 YEARS
Miller et al. 2006
Relative WT Change (Feet)
DRY
30 PERCENT EFFECTIVE REDUCTION IN MANAGED SURFACE FLOW.
Central Valley Water Table ‘Relative’ ResponseCentral Valley Water Table ‘Relative’ ResponseJoint LBNL-CDWR Drought Simulation
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60 YEARS
Miller et al. 2006
Relative WT Change (Feet)
DRY
30 PERCENT EFFECTIVE REDUCTION IN MANAGED SURFACE FLOW.
Case II: Initial Central Valley Water Table ‘Relative’ ResponseCase II: Initial Central Valley Water Table ‘Relative’ ResponseJoint LBNL-CDWR Drought Simulation
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10 YEARS
Miller et al. 2006
Relative WT Change (Feet)
VERY DRY
50 PERCENT EFFECTIVE REDUCTION IN MANAGED SURFACE FLOW.
Central Valley Water Table ‘Relative’ ResponseCentral Valley Water Table ‘Relative’ ResponseJoint LBNL-CDWR Drought Simulation
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20 YEARS
Miller et al. 2006
Relative WT Change (Feet)VERY DRY
50 PERCENT EFFECTIVE REDUCTION IN MANAGED SURFACE FLOW.
Central Valley Water Table ‘Relative’ ResponseCentral Valley Water Table ‘Relative’ ResponseJoint LBNL-CDWR Drought Simulation
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30 YEARS
Miller et al. 2006
Relative WT Change (Feet)
VERY DRY
50 PERCENT EFFECTIVE REDUCTION IN MANAGED SURFACE FLOW.
Central Valley Water Table ‘Relative’ ResponseCentral Valley Water Table ‘Relative’ ResponseJoint LBNL-CDWR Drought Simulation
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60 YEARS
Miller et al. 2006
Relative WT Change (Feet)VERY DRY
50 PERCENT EFFECTIVE REDUCTION IN MANAGED SURFACE FLOW.
Central Valley Water Table ‘Relative’ ResponseCentral Valley Water Table ‘Relative’ ResponseJoint LBNL-CDWR Drought Simulation
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10 YEARS
Miller et al. 2006
Relative WT Change (Feet)
CRITICAL
70 PERCENT EFFECTIVE REDUCTION IN MANAGED SURFACE FLOW.
Central Valley Water Table ‘Relative’ ResponseCentral Valley Water Table ‘Relative’ ResponseJoint LBNL-CDWR Drought Simulation
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20 YEARS
Miller et al. 2006
Relative WT Change (Feet)
CRITICAL
70 PERCENT EFFECTIVE REDUCTION IN MANAGED SURFACE FLOW.
Central Valley Water Table ‘Relative’ ResponseCentral Valley Water Table ‘Relative’ ResponseJoint LBNL-CDWR Drought Simulation
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30 YEARS
Miller et al. 2006
Relative WT Change (Feet)
CRITICAL
70 PERCENT EFFECTIVE REDUCTION IN MANAGED SURFACE FLOW.
Central Valley Water Table ‘Relative’ ResponseCentral Valley Water Table ‘Relative’ ResponseJoint LBNL-CDWR Drought Simulation
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60 YEARS
Miller et al. 2006
Relative WT Change (Feet)
CRITICAL
70 PERCENT EFFECTIVE REDUCTION IN MANAGED SURFACE FLOW.
Central Valley Water Table ‘Relative’ ResponseCentral Valley Water Table ‘Relative’ ResponseJoint LBNL-CDWR Drought Simulation
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C2VSIM
Sub-Regions
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QualifiersQualifiers
•C2VSIM and ALL water allocation models are only partially verified. Many empirical parameters are tuned.
•The groundwater processes lack sufficient physical descriptions.
•Groundwater total mass and variation is not known.
•Pumping is based on a limited available demand record.
•Demand is fixed and agriculture does not shift with change in supply.
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Assimilation of “DWR Groundwater depth measurements” and “GRACE” total change in terrestrial water storage with
CLM4.
• 1. CLM4 is run over the test region using custom-made high resolution 1km dataset containing high resolution DEM and Soil texture data.
•2. Assimilate the well measurement data and GRACE at monthly time step with the CLM4 simulation over the test region. The assimilation takes into account change in water table depth at well sites and the total TWS change over the whole region.
• • 3. The assimilation krigs a new watertable depth at the various
cells using the calculated CLM4 data and the observation data. The method uses the method of simple kriging and kriging with external drift.
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1 km resolution run over California.
Simulated 1-km Water Table Depth for California
Meters
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SFREC test site
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Test Region (SFREC)
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Monthly time step Assimilation flowchart, Repeated every month
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Conclusions
• Groundwater is 0.8 percent of total water, but it is 2.8 percent of total freshwater.
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Conclusions
• Groundwater is 0.8 percent of total water, but it is 2.8 percent of total freshwater.
• Groundwater acts as a water resource insurance during droughts.
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Conclusions
• Groundwater is 0.8 percent of total water, but it is 2.8 percent of total freshwater.
• Groundwater acts as a water resource insurance during droughts.
• Direct monitoring is very sparse.
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Conclusions
• Groundwater is 0.8 percent of total water, but it is 2.8 percent of total freshwater.
• Groundwater acts as a water resource insurance during droughts.
• Direct monitoring is very sparse.• Indirect monitoring requires new techniques that allow
for bridging spatial gaps.
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Conclusions
• Groundwater is 0.8 percent of total water, but it is 2.8 percent of total freshwater.
• Groundwater acts as a water resource insurance during droughts.
• Direct monitoring is very sparse.• Indirect monitoring requires new techniques that allow
for bridging spatial gaps.• GRACE, GPS, and well data assimilations into
dynamic surface-groundwater models are needed.
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Conclusions• Groundwater is 0.8 percent of total water, but it is 2.8 percent of
total freshwater.• Groundwater acts as a water resource insurance during droughts.• Direct monitoring is very sparse.• Indirect monitoring requires new techniques that allow for bridging
spatial gaps.• GRACE, GPS, and well data assimilations into dynamic surface-
groundwater models are needed.• Hindcast validation is required for advancing high-resolution
groundwater monitoring.
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