unifhycontrib.smart

class unifhycontrib.smart.OpenWaterComponent

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 open water component of SMART consists in routing the streamflow through the river network by means of a linear reservoir.

Contributors

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

Affiliations

Dooge Centre for Water Resources Research, University College Dublin
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading
Ireland’s Environmental Protection Agency

Licence

GPL-3.0

Copyright

2020, University College Dublin

Codebase

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

Inwards

name: surface_runoff_flux_delivered_to_rivers
units: kg m^-2 s^-1
from: subsurface
method: mean

name: net_groundwater_flux_to_rivers
units: kg m^-2 s^-1
from: subsurface
method: mean

Outputs

name: outgoing_water_volume_transport_along_river_channel
units: m³ s^-1
description: streamflow at outlet

Parameters

name: theta_rk
description: channel reservoir residence time
units: s

Constants

name: rho_water
description: volumetric mass density of liquid water
units: kg m^-3
default_value: 1.0e+03

States

name: river_store
units: kg m^-2

SpaceDomain Properties

name: land_sea_mask
required: False

name: flow_direction
required: False

name: cell_area
required: True