HESSD Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions HESSD Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss. 1812-2116 Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/hessd-8-869-2011 Modelling the hydrologic role of glaciers within a Water Evaluation and Planning System (WEAP): a case study in the Rio Santa watershed (Peru) Condom T. 1 Escobar M. 2 Purkey D. 2 Pouget J. C. 3 Suarez W. 4 Ramos C. 5 Apaestegui J. 4 5 Zapata M. 6 Gomez J. 6 Vergara W. 7 IRD, Institute for the Research and the Development (IRD), Lima, Peru – UMR 5569, HydroSciences Montpellier, France Stockholm Environment Institute – US Center, Davis, California – Water Group, USA IRD Quito Ecuador – UMR G-eau, Montpellier, France IRD – World Bank contract, Lima, Peru Universidad Nacional Agraria de la Molina, Lima, Peru Unidad de Glaciología y Recursos Hídricos ANA – (Autoridad Nacional del Agua) – Huaraz, Peru The World Bank, Washington, DC 20433 USA 21 01 2011 8 1 869 916 Copyright: © 2011 T. Condom et al. 2011 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is available from https://hess.copernicus.org/preprints/8/869/2011/hessd-8-869-2011.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://hess.copernicus.org/preprints/8/869/2011/hessd-8-869-2011.pdf

For the past 30 years, a process of glacier retreat has been observed in the Andes, raising alarm among regional water resources managers. The purpose of this paper is to develop a model of the role of Andean glaciers in the hydrology of their associated watersheds, which is appropriate for application at a river basin scale, with an eye towards creating an analytical tool that can be used to assess the water management implications of possible future glacier retreat. While the paper delves deeply into our formulation of a glacier module within a water resources management modelling system, the widely subscribed Water Evaluation and Planning System (WEAP), the originality of our work lies less in the domain of glaciology and more in how we apply an existing reduced form representation of glacier evolution within a model of the climate-glacier-hydrology-water management continuum. Key insights gained pertain to appropriate ways to deploy these reduced form representations in a relatively data poor environment and to effectively integrate them into a modelling framework that places glaciers within a wider water management context. The study area is the Rio Santa watershed in Peru which contains many of the expansive glaciers of the singular Cordillera Blanca. The specific objectives of this study included: (i) adequately simulating both monitored glacier retreat and observed river flows from the last forty years using historical climate time series as model input; (ii) quantifying the proportion of river flow in the Rio Santa produced from melting glaciers during this period; (iii) estimating the historical contribution of groundwater accretions to river flows; and (vi) reproducing a reasonable simulation of recent hydropower operations in the Rio Santa system. In pursuit objective (i), a split sample calibration-validation of the model was conducted by comparing the simulated glacier area to Landsat images taken in 1987 and 1998 and observed and simulated river flow at 16 control points in the Rio Santa watershed. At the global scale of the watershed, the glacier retreat is correctly simulated for the period 1970/1999 with a calculated retreat equals to −23% when the observed retreat is of −24%. Having established that the model can respond to these scientific objectives, the ultimate goal of the study was to demonstrate how this integrated modelling system can be used as a decision support tool to assist in planning water management adaptation to climate change. This sort of integrated assessment is required to adapt water resources management in the Andes to a~range of future climatic conditions, improving the resilience of developing Andean economies such Peru's in the face of a major drive of global change.

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