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Technical note
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12 Dec 2014
Technical note |
| 12 Dec 2014
Technical Note: Reducing the spin-up time of integrated surface water–groundwater models
H. Ajami
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Connected Waters Initiative Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
J. P. Evans
Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
M. F. McCabe
Water Desalination and Reuse Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
S. Stisen
Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Short summary
A new hybrid approach was developed to reduce the computational burden of the spin-up procedure by using a combination of model simulations and an empirical depth-to-water table function. Results illustrate that the hybrid approach reduced the spin-up period required for an integrated groundwater--surface water--land surface model (ParFlow.CLM) by up to 50%. The methodology is applicable to other coupled or integrated modeling frameworks when initialization from an equilibrium state is required.
A new hybrid approach was developed to reduce the computational burden of the spin-up procedure...
