Simulating the water budget of a Prairie Potholes complex from LiDAR and hydrological models in North Dakota,USA |
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| Authors: | Shengli Huang Claudia Young Omar I. Abdul-Aziz Devendra Dahal Min Feng Shuguang Liu |
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| Affiliation: | 1. ASRC Research and Technology Solutions (ARTS), Contractor to the US Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, 47914 252nd Street, Sioux Falls, SD 57198, USA;2. work performed under USGS contract G08PC91508;3. Earth Resources Technology (ERT), Inc., Contractor to the USGS EROS Center, Sioux Falls, SD 57198, USA;4. work performed under USGS contract G10PC00044;5. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florida International University, 10555 W. Flagler Street, Miami, FL 33174, USA;6. Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (SGT), Inc., Contractor to the USGS EROS Center, Sioux Falls, SD 57198, USA;7. State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environment Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China;8. USGS EROS Center, 47914 252nd 15 Street, Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57198, USA |
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| Abstract: | AbstractHydrological processes of the wetland complex in the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) are difficult to model, partly due to a lack of wetland morphology data. We used Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) data sets to derive wetland features; we then modelled rainfall, snowfall, snowmelt, runoff, evaporation, the “fill-and-spill” mechanism, shallow groundwater loss, and the effect of wet and dry conditions. For large wetlands with a volume greater than thousands of cubic metres (e.g. about 3000 m3), the modelled water volume agreed fairly well with observations; however, it did not succeed for small wetlands (e.g. volume less than 450 m3). Despite the failure for small wetlands, the modelled water area of the wetland complex coincided well with interpretation of aerial photographs, showing a linear regression with R2 of around 0.80 and a mean average error of around 0.55 km2. The next step is to improve the water budget modelling for small wetlands.Editor Z.W. Kundzewicz; Associate editor X. ChenCitation Huang, S.L., Young, C., Abdul-Aziz, O.I., Dahal, D., Feng, M., and Liu, S.G., 2013. Simulating the water budget of a Prairie Potholes complex from LiDAR and hydrological models in North Dakota, USA. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 58 (7), 1434–1444. |
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| Keywords: | hydrological modelling LiDAR Prairie Pothole Region water budget wetland |
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