Development and Analysis of GIS Tools for the Automatic Implementation of 1D Hydraulic Models Coupled with Distributed Hydrological Models
Publication: Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
Volume 20, Issue 12
Abstract
The authors presents a set of automated geographic information system (GIS)-based geoprocessing tools for the implementation of one-dimensional hydrodynamic (1D-HD) models that simulate an unsteady open channel flow through a channel network. The authors’ aim is to determine the degree of automation that is granted in the process of preparing river bathymetry and model parameters for 1D-HD model simulations. The authors present two case implementations to illustrate the use of the geoprocessing tools and to demonstrate how they can simplify some of the preprocessing tasks required for preparing model parameters. The authors present a statistical analysis of the automated algorithms performance for finding bank stations and show that it performs adequately in the authors’ study basins.
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Acknowledgments
The authors acknowledge financial and operational support from the Iowa Department of Transportation (IDOT) and the Iowa Flood Center (IFC) to conduct this study. The authors wish to acknowledge Daniel Gilles for his help on technical modeling issues. The authors thank Dr. Larry Weber, IIHR and the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments that helped us improve this manuscript.
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Volume 20 • Issue 12 • December 2015
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Received: Jun 13, 2014
Accepted: Feb 5, 2015
Published online: May 8, 2015
Discussion open until: Oct 8, 2015
Published in print: Dec 1, 2015
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