改进基于事件的时空数据模型

本文回顾了基于状态的时空数据模型和基于事件的时空数据模型。为了完整记录下时空的变化过程,有利于时空过程的查询,论文针对栅格数据提出了一种改进基于事件的时空数据模型。该模型完整地记录下地理现象的变化过程,并将地图数据的当前状态作为基图。由于大多应用中对现状图调用的最多,所以将现状图作为基图改进了系统的运行效率。最后,为了体现模型查询变化信息的优势,文章分析了一些时空查询实例。     

面向土地利用调查的时空数据库构建技术

为了满足"一调""二调"等不同时期土地利用变化数据管理与分析的需要,文章在分析时态数据库构建中存在的问题的基础上,引入变更事件、重建事件和多基态,建立了基于事件组的多基态修正模型,实现了"一调""二调"土地利用数据一体化存储;针对"一调""二调"空间数据不一致的几何重建和语义转换问题,提出通过重建事件表实现重建前后要素归档及查询;同时,针对土地利用数据管理的现状以及数据形态,提出了土地利用变更增量提取、时态拓扑关系构建的方法,实现了土地利用时空数据库的构建。最后,以武汉市汉南区数据为例开发了原型系统,实验结果表明本文提出的模型、方法具有较强的实用性。     

基于事件的疫情应急时空数据模型

针对疫情应急系统在时空数据逻辑性方面的高要求及已有时空数据模型在该方面的不足,本文以事件产生为触发、事件发展为驱动,进行面向对象的时空数据建模研究:建立了城市疫情应急相关时空数据的概念模型、静态结构模型和时态行为模型;并设计Geodatabase实例和组件模型,实现对时空数据模型的面向对象的组织、管理和操作。通过在眉山市疫情监测应急系统中的成功应用表明,基于事件对多关联复杂空间对象群进行的联动操作,实现了时空数据的逻辑耦合。     

Event-driven flood management: design and computational modules

Flood management is a set of activities that have to be carried out in collaboration with multiple agencies. Advanced flood information with early warning generated using remote sensing satellite technologies can help the agencies to effectively manage the situation on ground. Various environmental parameters and forecasts provided by different agencies can be analyzed and compared with historical flood events for generating probable flood event alerts. The information (environmental parameters) provided by the agencies are heterogeneous and noncompliant to standards and distributed in nature. Synchronization of data from distributed resources and automation of data analysis process for flood management is a primary prerequisite for faster and efficient decision-making. Web 2.0-based web services enable data creation, sharing, communication, and collaboration on web. Spatial data sharing on web 2.0 for making quality of service using open-source software for efficient flood management is a challenge. Available software architectures proposed for risk and environmental crisis management are too generic in nature and needs lot of modification for flood management. An event-driven model coupled with data standardization procedures using service-oriented architecture provides an effective framework for flood management. In this paper, a framework capable of collecting heterogeneous distributed flood-related information for analyzing and alerting probable flood events is proposed. The framework has been implemented to generate automatic flood extent maps, by analyzing the distributed satellite data (as service). The automation of flood delineation process reduces the overall flood product generation time. Open-source web tools have been utilized in development of spatial information system to visualize and analyze the actual situation on ground facilitating overall decision-making process.     

Physically-based distributed soil erosion and sediment yield model (DREAM) for simulating individual storm events

Abstract

A relatively simple process-oriented, physically-based distributed (PBD) hydrological model, the distributed runoff and erosion assessment model (DREAM), is described, and a validation study conducted in the semi-forested watershed of Pathri Rao, in the Garhwal Himalayas, India, is reported. DREAM takes account of watershed heterogeneity as reflected by land use, soil type, topography and rainfall, measured in the field or estimated through remote sensing, and generates estimates of runoff and sediment yield in spatial and temporal domains. The model is based on simultaneous solution of flow dynamics, based on kinematic wave theory, followed by solution of soil erosion dynamics. As the storm rainfall proceeds, the process of overland flow generation is dependent on the interception storage and infiltration rates. The components of the soil erosion model have been modified to provide better prediction of sediment flow rates and sediment yields. The validation study conducted to test the performance of the model in simulating soil erosion and sediment yield during different storm events monitored in the study watershed showed that the model outputs are satisfactory. Details of a sensitivity analysis, model calibration and the statistical evaluation of the results obtained are also presented and discussed. It is noteworthy that the distributed nature of the model combined with the use of geographical information system (GIS) techniques permits the computation and representation of the spatial distribution of sediment yield for simulated storm events, and a map of the spatial distribution of sediment yield for a simulated storm event is presented to highlight this capability.

Citation Ramsankaran, R., Kothyari, U.C., Ghosh, S.K., Malcherek, A., and Murugesan, K., 2013. Physically-based distributed soil erosion and sediment yield model (DREAM) for simulating individual storm events. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 58 (4), 872–891.     

Robustness of flood-model calibration using single and multiple events

ABSTRACT

Lack of discharge data for model calibration is challenging for flood prediction in ungauged basins. Since establishment and maintenance of a permanent discharge station is resource demanding, a possible remedy could be to measure discharge only for a few events. We tested the hypothesis that a few flood-event hydrographs in a tropical basin would be sufficient to calibrate a bucket-type rainfall–runoff model, namely the HBV model, and proposed a new event-based calibration method to adequately predict floods. Parameter sets were chosen based on calibration of different scenarios of data availability, and their ability to predict floods was assessed. Compared to not having any discharge data, flood predictions improved already when one event was used for calibration. The results further suggest that two to four events for calibration may considerably improve flood predictions with regard to accuracy and uncertainty reduction, whereas adding more events beyond this resulted in small performance gains.     

面向事件过程的秦岭南北极端降水时空变化特征

基于72个气象站点1970—2017年逐日降水和气温数据,面向极端降水过程,对秦岭南北4种极端降水类型（偏前型、偏后型、均衡型和单日型）时空变化特征进行分析,进而探讨不同分区、不同类型极端降水与区域增温的响应关系。结果表明：① 从长期气候角度分析,秦岭南北降水格局稳定,3个分区降水变化空间响应具有一致性,共同表现出“降水以波动为主,降水量近期增加,降水日数下降,整体呈现极端化”的特征;② 在极端降水主导类型上,以累计降水量为判断标准,秦岭以北为均衡型主导,兼有偏后型;秦岭南坡类型组合关系较弱,为单一均衡型,汉江谷地西侧为“均衡型+偏后型”,东侧为“均衡型+偏前型”组合;以累积降水频次为判断标准,秦岭南北主导类型为偏前型,其次是偏后型,汉江谷地“偏前型+偏后型”组合形态更突出;③ 秦岭南北极端降水与区域变暖关系密切。当气温升高时,持续性极端降水呈下降趋势,单日型极端降水呈增加趋势。其中,秦岭以北偏前型和均衡型极端降水在下降,秦岭南坡响应密切的为偏后型,汉江谷地为均衡型和偏后型;④ 面向极端降水事件过程,将极端降水事件细化,可有效验证极端降水对气候变暖响应的结论,对未来研究方法完善和研究思路设计具有启示性。     

Flood modelling using the distributed event-based SCS-LR model in the Mediterranean Real Collobrier catchment

ABSTRACT

Event-based models are often used for flood prediction because they require fewer data than more complex models and account for a small number of parameters. We present the performance of such a model in simulating Mediterranean floods, with a focus on the initialization and on the impact of the rainfall uncertainties on the calibration of the model. The distributed event-based parsimonious Soil Conservation Service Lag-and-Route (SCS-LR) model was applied in the Real Collobrier catchment, France, which has a very high density of raingauges. The initial condition of the model was highly correlated with predictors, such as baseflow or soil water content. A reduction in the raingauge density can markedly change the calibration of the model. As the density of raingauges is generally low in most catchments, the uncertainties associated with rainfall measurement are thus expected either to mask the actual accuracy of the model, or to alter the model parameters.     

Event-based estimation of water budget components using a network of multi-sensor capacitance probes

Abstract

A new approach was developed for estimating vertical soil water fluxes using soil water content time series data. Instead of a traditional fixed time interval, this approach utilizes the time interval between two sequential minima of the soil water storage time series to identify groundwater recharge events and calculate components of the soil water budget. We calculated water budget components: surface-water excess (Sw), infiltration less evapotranspiration (I – ET) and groundwater recharge (R) from May 2001 to January 2003 at eight locations at the USDA Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, Maryland, USA. High uncertainty was observed for all budget components. This uncertainty was attributed to spatial and temporal variation in Sw, I – ET and R, and was caused by nonuniform rainfall distributions during recharge events, variability in the profile water content, and spatial variability in soil hydraulic properties. The proposed event-based approach allows estimating water budget components when profile water content monitoring data are available.

Citation Guber, A., Gish, T., Pachepsky, Y., McKee, L., Nicholson, T. & Cady, R. (2011) Event-based estimation of water budget components using a network of multi-sensor capacitance probes. Hydrol. Sci. J. 56(7), 1227–1241.     

DETERMINATION OF THE EFFECTIVE POROSITY FOR PARTIALLY PENETRATED AQUIFERS

Abstract

The effective porosity θ _e for partially penetrated aquifers was determined. The model basin sandy aquifer available in the Centre was used. The values obtained for θ _e were in good agreement with the adopted values.