unifhycontrib.smart

class unifhycontrib.smart.SubSurfaceComponent

The Soil Moisture Accounting and Routing for Transport [SMART] model (Mockler et al., 2016) is a bucket-type rainfall-runoff model.

SMART is an enhancement of the SMARG (Soil Moisture Accounting and Routing with Groundwater) lumped, conceptual rainfall–runoff model developed at National University of Ireland, Galway (Kachroo, 1992), and based on the soil layers concept (O’Connell et al., 1970; Nash and Sutcliffe, 1970). Separate soil layers were introduced to capture the decline with soil depth in the ability of plant roots to extract water for evapotranspiration. SMARG was originally developed for flow modelling and forecasting and was incorporated into the Galway Real-Time River Flow Forecasting System [GFFS] (Goswami et al., 2005). The SMART model reorganised and extended SMARG to provide a basis for water quality modelling by separating explicitly the important flow pathways in a catchment.

The sub-surface component of SMART comprises the runoff generation and land runoff routing processes. This sub-surface component is made up of six soil layers of equal depth and five linear reservoirs. The six soil layers are vertically connected to allow for percolation and evaporation. The five linear reservoirs represent the different pathways for land runoff. Note, the river routing of SMART is not included in this component.

Contributors

Thibault Hallouin [1,2], Eva Mockler [1,3], Michael Bruen [1]

Affiliations
  1. Dooge Centre for Water Resources Research, University College Dublin

  2. Department of Meteorology, University of Reading

  3. Ireland’s Environmental Protection Agency

Licence

GPL-3.0

Copyright

2020, University College Dublin

Codebase

https://github.com/unifhy-org/unifhycontrib-smart

Inwards

name

canopy_liquid_throughfall_and_snow_melt_flux

units

kg m-2 s-1

from

surfacelayer

method

mean

name

transpiration_flux_from_root_uptake

units

kg m-2 s-1

from

surfacelayer

method

mean

Outwards

name

soil_water_stress_for_transpiration

units

1

to

surfacelayer

method

mean

name

surface_runoff_flux_delivered_to_rivers

units

kg m-2 s-1

to

openwater

method

mean

name

net_groundwater_flux_to_rivers

units

kg m-2 s-1

to

openwater

method

mean

Parameters

name

theta_c

description

evaporation decay coefficient

units

1

name

theta_h

description

quick runoff ratio

units

1

name

theta_d

description

drain flow ratio

units

1

name

theta_s

description

soil outflow coefficient

units

1

name

theta_z

description

effective soil depth

units

kg m-2

name

theta_sk

description

surface reservoir residence time

units

s

name

theta_fk

description

interflow reservoir residence time

units

s

name

theta_gk

description

groundwater reservoir residence time

units

s

States

name

soil_layers

units

kg m-2

divisions

6

name

overland_store

units

kg m-2

name

drain_store

units

kg m-2

name

inter_store

units

kg m-2

name

shallow_gw_store

units

kg m-2

name

deep_gw_store

units

kg m-2

SpaceDomain Properties

name

land_sea_mask

required

False

name

flow_direction

required

False

name

cell_area

required

False