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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-3481-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-3481-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
A comprehensive quasi-3-D model for regional-scale unsaturated–saturated water flow
Wei Mao
State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering
Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China
State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering
Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China
Heng Dai
Institute of Groundwater and Earth Sciences, Jinan University,
Guangzhou, Guangdong 32306, China
Ming Ye
Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Florida State
University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
Jinzhong Yang
State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering
Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China
Jingwei Wu
State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering
Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China
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Short summary
A new quasi-3-D model was developed by coupling a soil water balance model with MODFLOW iteratively for regional-scale water flow modeling. The model was tested to be effective and efficient with well-maintained mass balance. A modeling framework was developed to organize the coupling scheme and to handle the pre- and post-processing information. The model is then used to evaluate groundwater recharge in a real-world application, which shows the model practicability in regional-scale problems.
A new quasi-3-D model was developed by coupling a soil water balance model with MODFLOW...