Watershed Modeling
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 8:08 am
Bill,
I have been working on watershed modeling for sometime now. In the
situation that you describe, I would most definitely use two stocks.
One for the level in the reservoir and one for the storage of water
in the soil. The most compelling reason is that there will always
be a flow from the reservoir to the soil when there is water in the
reservoir but that flow will go to zero when the reservoir is dry.
Any addition of water (i.e. rainfall or as is usually the
case here in Idaho, snowfall) would start in the reservoir and infiltrate
to the soil reservoir.
By using only one stock, you would lose this interesting part of the model
(different infiltration rates, saturation of soil, lining the reservoir...)
Just my one thought for the day.
Jake Jacobson
Idaho National Engineering & Environmental Laboratory
email: jake@inel.gov
(:>)
I have been working on watershed modeling for sometime now. In the
situation that you describe, I would most definitely use two stocks.
One for the level in the reservoir and one for the storage of water
in the soil. The most compelling reason is that there will always
be a flow from the reservoir to the soil when there is water in the
reservoir but that flow will go to zero when the reservoir is dry.
Any addition of water (i.e. rainfall or as is usually the
case here in Idaho, snowfall) would start in the reservoir and infiltrate
to the soil reservoir.
By using only one stock, you would lose this interesting part of the model
(different infiltration rates, saturation of soil, lining the reservoir...)
Just my one thought for the day.
Jake Jacobson
Idaho National Engineering & Environmental Laboratory
email: jake@inel.gov
(:>)