Comparison of different assimilation methodologies of groundwater levels to improve predictions of root zone soil moisture with an integrated terrestrial system model
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| Title: | Main Title: Comparison of different assimilation methodologies of groundwater levels to improve predictions of root zone soil moisture with an integrated terrestrial system model |
| Description: | Abstract: The linkage between root zone soil moisture and groundwater is either neglected or simplified in most land surface models. The fully-coupled subsurface-land surface model TerrSysMP including variably saturated groundwater dynamics is used in this work. We test and compare five data assimilation methodologies for assimilating groundwater level data via the ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) to improve root zone soil moisture estimation with TerrSysMP. Groundwater level data are assimilated in the form of pressure head or soil moisture (set equal to porosity in the saturated zone) to update state vectors. In the five assimilation methodologies, the state vector contains either (i) pressure head, or (ii) log-transformed pressure head, or (iii) soil moisture, or (iv) pressure head for the saturated zone only, or (v) a combination of pressure head and soil moisture, pressure head for the saturated zone and soil moisture for the unsaturated zone. These methodologies are evaluated in synthetic experiments which are performed for different climate conditions, soil types and plant functional types to simulate various root zone soil moisture distributions and groundwater levels. The results demonstrate that EnKF cannot properly handle strongly skewed pressure distributions which are caused by extreme negative pressure heads in the unsaturated zone during dry periods. This problem can only be alleviated by methodology (iii), (iv) and (v). The last approach gives the best results and avoids unphysical updates related to strongly skewed pressure heads in the unsaturated zone. If groundwater level data are assimilated by methodology (iii), EnKF fails to update the state vector containing the soil moisture values if for (almost) all the realizations the observation does not bring significant new information. Synthetic experiments for the joint assimilation of groundwater levels and surface soil moisture support methodology (v) and show great potential for improving the representation of root zone soil moisture. |
| Identifier: | 10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.11.003 (DOI) |
| Citation Advice: | Zhang, H., Kurtz, W., Kollet, S., Vereecken, H., Hendricks Franssen, H.-J. (2018). Comparison of different assimilation methodologies of groundwater levels to improve predictions of root zone soil moisture with an integrated terrestrial system model, Advances in Water Resources, 111, 224-238. |
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| Creators: | Hongjuan Zhang (Author), Wolfgang Kurtz (Author), Stefan Kollet (Author), Harry Vereecken (Author), Harrie-Jan Hendricks-Franssen (Author) |
| Publisher: | ElSevier |
| Publication Year: | 2017 |
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| TR32 Topic: | Soil |
| Related Subproject: | C6 |
| Subjects: | Keywords: Data Assimilation, Hydrological Modelling |
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| Filename: | Zhang_etal_2017_AWR.pdf |
| Data Type: | Text - Article |
| File Size: | 2 MB |
| Date: | Accepted: 03.11.2017 |
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| Language: | English |
| Status: | Completed |
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| Publication Status: | Accepted |
| Review Status: | Peer reviewed |
| Publication Type: | Article |
| Article Type: | Journal |
| Source: | Advances in Water Resources |
| Volume: | 111 |
| Number of Pages: | 15 (224 - 238) |
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| Metadata Creator: | Wolfgang Kurtz |
| Metadata Created: | 20.12.2017 |
| Metadata Last Updated: | 20.12.2017 |
| Subproject: | C6 |
| Funding Phase: | 3 |
| Metadata Language: | English |
| Metadata Version: | V50 |
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