| Title | Applications of a regional-scale integrated modelling platform towards watershed-level hydrologic insights |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
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| Author | Frey, S; Stonebridge, G; Berg, S; Steinmoeller, D; Lapen, D; Khader, O; Erler, A; Sudicky, E |
| Source | Regional-Scale Groundwater Geoscience in Southern Ontario: An Ontario Geological Survey, Geological Survey of Canada, and Conservation Ontario Geoscientists Open House; by Russell, H A J ; Ford, D; Holysh, S; Priebe, E H; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8528,
2019 p. 12, https://doi.org/10.4095/313583  Open
Access |
| Year | 2019 |
| Alt Series | Ontario Geological Survey, Open File Report 6349 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Publisher | Government of Ontario |
| Meeting | Regional-Scale Groundwater Geoscience in Southern Ontario: Open House; Guelph; CA; February 27-28, 2019 |
| Document | open file |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| Related | This publication is contained in Regional-Scale Groundwater
Geoscience in Southern Ontario: An Ontario Geological Survey, Geological Survey of Canada, and Conservation Ontario Geoscientists Open House |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | Ontario |
| NTS | 30; 31B; 31C; 31D; 31E; 31G; 40; 41A; 41G; 41H/03; 41H/04; 41H/05; 41H/06; 41H/12; 41H/13 |
| Area | Southern Ontario; Great Lakes |
| Lat/Long WENS | -84.0000 -74.0000 46.0000 41.5000 |
| Subjects | hydrogeology; surficial geology/geomorphology; regional geology; groundwater; modelling; groundwater resources; aquifers; surface waters; watersheds; hydrologic environment; hydrologic properties;
resource management; meteorology; groundwater flow; stream flow; flow regimes; HydroGeoSphere; monitoring; Forecasting; Phanerozoic; Cenozoic; Quaternary; Paleozoic; Silurian |
| Released | 2019 02 08 |
| Abstract | Persistent questions exist on how a regional scale model, such as the one developed for Southern Ontario, can be employed as a tool to address local level questions. While the spatial resolution of the
regional model may be high enough for big-picture applications, it is arguably not high enough to provide useful insights on highly-dynamic small-scale hydrologic behavior or operational aspects of watershed management. In order to meet the needs of
smaller scale applications, a set of HydroGeoSphere (HGS) fully-integrated groundwater - surface water models has been constructed for the 12 major watersheds that lie within the bounds of the regional model. These models have been constructed with a
much higher level of spatial resolution than the regional model (i.e. with Strahler order 2 stream networks as opposed to Strahler order 3) and with full representation of the surface water features as channel elements within the model, which creates
a more representative depiction of watershed and sub-watershed scale hydrologic behavior. As the underlying database upon which the watershed models are constructed is amalgamated across Southern Ontario, these models all share a consistent
hydrostratigraphy, soil, and landcover representation, which in turn creates a uniform simulation framework that aligns with regional model behavior. However, in recognition of the fact that higher resolution model construction data may be available
and/or required for smaller scale applications, the watershed models can be efficiently reconstructed using data in standard GIS formats.
In addition to being able to use each of the 12 watershed models as a pre-built standalone fully-integrated
model for individual watersheds, the full set of models is now running operationally as a surface water forecasting system for the whole of the Southern Ontario model domain. Using an ensemble set of weather forecasts and an advanced monitoring data
assimilation scheme, surface water forecasts are being generated at daily frequency for a two week forecast interval for 100's of locations across Southern Ontario. Already, a demonstrated strength of the platform is that flows at ungauged locations
(as well as known gauging locations) can be predicted with some certainty given that HGS employs a physics-based mass conservative approach for simulating water movement within the highly dynamic GW-SW system in Southern Ontario.
In order to
disseminate output from the hydrologic forecasting platform to watershed stakeholders, a cloud based portal has been developed with watershed-level dashboards and on-the-fly analytic functionality. While surface water flows are currently the only
forecast endpoint, platform development is ongoing, with plans to release operational forecasts for other components of the hydrologic cycle in future releases. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
Volume of abstracts for Ontario Geological Survey and Geological Survey of Canada groundwater geoscience Open house with Conservation Ontario. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 313583 |
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