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Apr 26, 2012
Upscaling Groundwater Models for Inclusion in Management Models — Case Study from California's Sacramento Valley
Publication: World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2008: Ahupua'A
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This article describes and evaluates the upscaling of a calibrated groundwater model of California's Sacramento Valley for the purpose of incorporating it into regional-scale water resource management models. Upscaling is performed in two stages, by vertical integration, than by combining grid elements into isolated lumped subbasins. Simulation results of the upscaled models are compared to those of the initial spatially distributed model. Because anthropogenic stresses (pumping and recharge) are much larger than flows between subbasins, the fully upscaled formulation estimates similar groundwater levels to the vertically integrated model.
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© 2008 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Apr 26, 2012
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- Analysis (by type)
- Calibration
- Case studies
- Engineering fundamentals
- Freight transportation
- Groundwater
- Groundwater management
- Infrastructure
- Logistics
- Measurement (by type)
- Methodology (by type)
- Models (by type)
- Research methods (by type)
- Resource management
- Simulation models
- Stress (by type)
- Stress analysis
- Structural analysis
- Structural engineering
- System analysis
- Transportation engineering
- Water (by type)
- Water and water resources
- Water management
- Water policy
- Water resources
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UCL Environment Institute and Dept. of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London, United Kingdom. E-mail: [email protected]
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis. E-mail: [email protected]
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