Conference Proceedings
A synthetic study to characterize alluvial groundwater responses to overbank flood recharge
SA Womera, JF Costelloe, TJ Peterson, A WESTERN, T Weber (ed.), MJ McPhee (ed.), RS Anderssen (ed.)
Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand | Published : 2015
Abstract
Groundwater recharge in alluvial river floodplains is a complex process driven by variation in river water levels, overbank flooding, rainfall over the floodplain and subsequent evapotranspiration. In many floodplains, floods are strongly correlated with local rainfall which makes it difficult to quantify groundwater recharge resulting from floods only. This paper investigates the groundwater response characteristics to overbank flooding and rainfall in different synthetic river-aquifer settings. Sets of coupled MIKE SHE/MIKE11 models are developed using 54 years (1960-2013) of river data (water level and discharge) and climatic data (rainfall and evapotranspiration) from the Loddon River, A..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Thanks to DHI for providing Labkit student license for this PhD research. We would also like to thank The University of Melbourne for providing the Melbourne International Research Scholarships (MIRS) and The Melbourne International Fee Remission Scholarship (MIFRS) for funding this program. Special thanks to Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for Future Program for providing partial award to support this work.