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HPCCprojects:Dynamic Coupling of the Water Cycle with Patterns of Urban Growth

2012-04-06T12:19:26Z

Abhaskar:

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==Project description==
The objective of this project is to link an urban growth model (SLEUTH) with a fully-coupled, physically-based three-dimensional hydrologic model (PARFLOW-CLM) to evaluate the effects of growth on water availability and limits to water supply using the Baltimore metropolitan region as a case study. The urban growth modeling consists of a rigorous and fully validated implementation of the SLEUTH model coupled with a spatial statistical model of urban suitability and demographic data. This approach defines a suitability map for urban land cover based on the conditions that are associated with current urban land and areas of recent urban land cover change. Landscape variables, such as soil suitability and non-urban land cover (e.g. forest and agriculture) are used to define appropriate conditions for urbanization. Socio-economic variables, including lands that are protected through regulatory policies or parks, population density, and others, are also included. In addition to providing a platform where both landscape characteristics and socio-economic variables can be integrated, this model provides the opportunity to test and quantify the influence of each of these variables in either attracting or resisting development. Implementation of the hydrologic component of the project includes intensive field studies at the local scale that will focus on a single highly urbanized watershed, Dead Run, which is a tributary to the Gwynns Falls, the primary study watershed of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study NSF-funded long-term ecological research site. Detailed process studies will be carried out in conjunction with application of the EPA SWMM model to achieve an integrated understanding of controls on water stores and fluxes at the subwatershed scale in a highly urbanized area. Subwatershed fine-scale modeling results results will then be used to determine large-scale effective properties as inputs to PARFLOW CLM of the entire metropolitan region. Combining a physically-based regional hydrologic model with an urban growth model will allow an assessment of the coupled feedbacks between growth projections (and the socio-economic variables that affect growth) and surface and subsurface water resources. Changes in stream baseflow and groundwater availability may in turn influence regulatory decisions on development permits in exurban areas.

==Objectives==
List the main objectives of your project

==Time-line==
9/1/07 - 8/31/12

==Models in use==
[[Model:ParFlow|ParFlow]]

==Results==
List the results of your project

==Users==
* [[User:abhaskar|Aditi Bhaskar]]

==Funding==
National Science Foundation, Biocomplexity of Coupled Natural and Human Systems

==Publications and presentations==

==Links==

HPCCprojects:Dynamic Coupling of the Water Cycle with Patterns of Urban Growth

2012-04-06T12:09:54Z

Abhaskar:

__NOTOC__
={{PAGENAME}}=
==Project description==
The objective of this project is to link an urban growth model (SLEUTH) with a fully-coupled, physically-based three-dimensional hydrologic model (PARFLOW-CLM) to evaluate the effects of growth on water availability and limits to water supply using the Baltimore metropolitan region as a case study. The urban growth modeling will consist of a rigorous and fully validated implementation of the SLEUTH model coupled with a spatial statistical model of urban suitability and demographic data. This approach will define a suitability map for urban land cover based on the conditions that are associated with current urban land and areas of recent urban land cover change. Landscape variables, such as soil suitability and non-urban land cover (e.g. forest and agriculture) will be used to define appropriate conditions for urbanization. Socio-economic variables, including lands that are protected through regulatory policies or parks, population density, and others, will also be included. In addition to providing a platform where both landscape characteristics and socio-economic variables can be integrated, this model will provide the opportunity to test and quantify the influence of each of these variables in either attracting or resisting development. Because the model will have a better representation of the landscape in terms of where development is more or less likely to occur, we also anticipate an improvement in the model’s performance. Implementation of the hydrologic component of the project will include intensive field studies at the local scale that will focus on a single highly urbanized watershed, Dead Run, which is a tributary to the Gwynns Falls, the primary study watershed of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study NSF-funded long-term ecological research site. Detailed process studies will be carried out in conjunction with application of the EPA SWMM model to achieve an integrated understanding of controls on water stores and fluxes at the subwatershed scale in a highly urbanized area. Subwatershed fine-scale modeling results results will then be used to determine large-scale effective properties as inputs to PARFLOW CLM of the entire metropolitan region. Combining a physically-based regional hydrologic model with an urban growth model will allow an assessment of the coupled feedbacks between growth projections (and the socio-economic variables that affect growth) and surface and subsurface water resources. Changes in stream baseflow and groundwater availability may in turn influence regulatory decisions on development permits in exurban areas.

==Objectives==
List the main objectives of your project

==Time-line==
9/1/07 - 8/31/12

==Models in use==
[[Model:ParFlow|ParFlow]]

==Results==
List the results of your project

==Users==
* [[User:abhaskar|Aditi Bhaskar]]

==Funding==
National Science Foundation, Biocomplexity of Coupled Natural and Human Systems

==Publications and presentations==

==Links==

HPCCprojects:Dynamic Coupling of the Water Cycle with Patterns of Urban Growth

2012-04-05T19:54:19Z

Abhaskar:

__NOTOC__
={{PAGENAME}}=
==Project description==
The objective of this project is to link an urban growth model (SLEUTH) with a fully-coupled, physically-based three-dimensional hydrologic model (PARFLOW-CLM) to evaluate the effects of growth on water availability and limits to water supply using the Baltimore metropolitan region as a case study. The urban growth modeling will consist of a rigorous and fully validated implementation of the SLEUTH model coupled with a spatial statistical model of urban suitability and demographic data. This approach will define a suitability map for urban land cover based on the conditions that are associated with current urban land and areas of recent urban land cover change. Landscape variables, such as soil suitability and non-urban land cover (e.g. forest and agriculture) will be used to define appropriate conditions for urbanization. Socio-economic variables, including lands that are protected through regulatory policies or parks, population density, and others, will also be included. In addition to providing a platform where both landscape characteristics and socio-economic variables can be integrated, this model will provide the opportunity to test and quantify the influence of each of these variables in either attracting or resisting development. Because the model will have a better representation of the landscape in terms of where development is more or less likely to occur, we also anticipate an improvement in the model’s performance. Implementation of the hydrologic component of the project will include intensive field studies at the local scale that will focus on a single highly urbanized watershed, Dead Run, which is a tributary to the Gwynns Falls, the primary study watershed of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study NSF-funded long-term ecological research site. Detailed process studies will be carried out in conjunction with application of the EPA SWMM model to achieve an integrated understanding of controls on water stores and fluxes at the subwatershed scale in a highly urbanized area. Subwatershed fine-scale modeling results results will then be used to determine large-scale effective properties as inputs to PARFLOW CLM of the entire metropolitan region. Combining a physically-based regional hydrologic model with an urban growth model will allow an assessment of the coupled feedbacks between growth projections (and the socio-economic variables that affect growth) and surface and subsurface water resources. Changes in stream baseflow and groundwater availability may in turn influence regulatory decisions on development permits in exurban areas.

==Objectives==
List the main objectives of your project

==Time-line==
9/1/07 - 8/31/12

==Models in use==
[[Model:ParFlow|ParFlow]]

==Results==
List the results of your project

==Users==
* [[User:abhaskar|Aditi Bhaskar]]

==Funding==
National Science Foundation, Biocomplexity of Coupled Natural and Human Systems

==Publications and presentations==
Bhaskar, A. and C. Welty, 2012. Water Balances along an Urban-to-Rural Gradient of Metropolitan Baltimore, 2001-2009. Environmental and Engineering Geoscience. 18(1), 37-50. doi: 10.2113/gseegeosci.18.1.37.

Bhaskar, A.S. , C. Welty and R.M. Maxwell (2011), Spatiotemporal Variability of the Urban Water Budget and Implications for Distributed Modeling, 2011 Fall Meeting Supplemental, Abstract H51P-01.

Bhaskar, A.S., C. Welty, A. Seck, R. Maxwell, C. Jantz, S. Drzyzga, R. Sanderson, A. Miller, G. Lindner, J. Cole (2011), Watershed flow dynamics of the Baltimore Region, Baltimore Ecosystem Study Annual Meeting, 19 October 2011, Baltimore, MD.

==Links==

HPCCprojects:Dynamic Coupling of the Water Cycle with Patterns of Urban Growth

2012-04-05T19:52:28Z

Abhaskar:

__NOTOC__
={{PAGENAME}}=
==Project description==
The objective of this project is to link an urban growth model (SLEUTH) with a fully-coupled, physically-based three-dimensional hydrologic model (PARFLOW-CLM) to evaluate the effects of growth on water availability and limits to water supply using the Baltimore metropolitan region as a case study. The urban growth modeling will consist of a rigorous and fully validated implementation of the SLEUTH model coupled with a spatial statistical model of urban suitability and demographic data. This approach will define a suitability map for urban land cover based on the conditions that are associated with current urban land and areas of recent urban land cover change. Landscape variables, such as soil suitability and non-urban land cover (e.g. forest and agriculture) will be used to define appropriate conditions for urbanization. Socio-economic variables, including lands that are protected through regulatory policies or parks, population density, and others, will also be included. In addition to providing a platform where both landscape characteristics and socio-economic variables can be integrated, this model will provide the opportunity to test and quantify the influence of each of these variables in either attracting or resisting development. Because the model will have a better representation of the landscape in terms of where development is more or less likely to occur, we also anticipate an improvement in the model’s performance. Implementation of the hydrologic component of the project will include intensive field studies at the local scale that will focus on a single highly urbanized watershed, Dead Run, which is a tributary to the Gwynns Falls, the primary study watershed of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study NSF-funded long-term ecological research site. Detailed process studies will be carried out in conjunction with application of the EPA SWMM model to achieve an integrated understanding of controls on water stores and fluxes at the subwatershed scale in a highly urbanized area. Subwatershed fine-scale modeling results results will then be used to determine large-scale effective properties as inputs to PARFLOW CLM of the entire metropolitan region. Combining a physically-based regional hydrologic model with an urban growth model will allow an assessment of the coupled feedbacks between growth projections (and the socio-economic variables that affect growth) and surface and subsurface water resources. Changes in stream baseflow and groundwater availability may in turn influence regulatory decisions on development permits in exurban areas.

==Objectives==
List the main objectives of your project

==Time-line==
9/1/07 - 8/31/12

==Models in use==
[[Model:ParFlow|ParFlow]]

==Results==
List the results of your project

==Users==
* [[User:abhaskar|Aditi Bhaskar]]

==Funding==
Provide your project funding sources including the award number

==Publications and presentations==
This would be the place to list your achievements, journal articles, conference abstracts, etc

==Links==

HPCCprojects:Dynamic Coupling of the Water Cycle with Patterns of Urban Growth

2012-04-05T19:49:25Z

Abhaskar:

__NOTOC__
={{PAGENAME}}=
==Project description==
The objective of this project is to link an urban growth model (SLEUTH) with a fully-coupled, physically-based three-dimensional hydrologic model (PARFLOW-CLM) to evaluate the effects of growth on water availability and limits to water supply using the Baltimore metropolitan region as a case study. The urban growth modeling will consist of a rigorous and fully validated implementation of the SLEUTH model coupled with a spatial statistical model of urban suitability and demographic data. This approach will define a suitability map for urban land cover based on the conditions that are associated with current urban land and areas of recent urban land cover change. Landscape variables, such as soil suitability and non-urban land cover (e.g. forest and agriculture) will be used to define appropriate conditions for urbanization. Socio-economic variables, including lands that are protected through regulatory policies or parks, population density, and others, will also be included. In addition to providing a platform where both landscape characteristics and socio-economic variables can be integrated, this model will provide the opportunity to test and quantify the influence of each of these variables in either attracting or resisting development. Because the model will have a better representation of the landscape in terms of where development is more or less likely to occur, we also anticipate an improvement in the model’s performance. Implementation of the hydrologic component of the project will include intensive field studies at the local scale that will focus on a single highly urbanized watershed, Dead Run, which is a tributary to the Gwynns Falls, the primary study watershed of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study NSF-funded long-term ecological research site. Detailed process studies will be carried out in conjunction with application of the EPA SWMM model to achieve an integrated understanding of controls on water stores and fluxes at the subwatershed scale in a highly urbanized area. Subwatershed fine-scale modeling results results will then be used to determine large-scale effective properties as inputs to PARFLOW CLM of the entire metropolitan region. Combining a physically-based regional hydrologic model with an urban growth model will allow an assessment of the coupled feedbacks between growth projections (and the socio-economic variables that affect growth) and surface and subsurface water resources. Changes in stream baseflow and groundwater availability may in turn influence regulatory decisions on development permits in exurban areas.

==Objectives==
List the main objectives of your project

==Time-line==
9/1/07 - 8/31/12

==Models in use==
Information about models / software you use

==Results==
List the results of your project

==Users==
List the CSDMS HPCC users of your project:
* <name HPCCuser>

==Funding==
Provide your project funding sources including the award number

==Publications and presentations==
This would be the place to list your achievements, journal articles, conference abstracts, etc

==Links==
This would be the place to provide links that are related to your project.

Choose one of the two categories mentioned below, that your project suites the best
[[Category:Lecture project]] [[Category:Research project]]

HPCCprojects:Dynamic Coupling of the Water Cycle with Patterns of Urban Growth

2012-04-05T19:45:29Z

Abhaskar: Created page with "<!-- How to create a new "HPCCproject" page: 1) Log in to the wiki 2) Create a new page for each HPCCproject, by using the following URL: * http://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/H..."

__NOTOC__
={{PAGENAME}}=
==Project description==
The objective of this project is to link an urban growth model (SLEUTH) with a fully-coupled, physically-based three-dimensional hydrologic model (PARFLOW-CLM) to evaluate the effects of growth on water availability and limits to water supply using the Baltimore metropolitan region as a case study. The urban growth modeling will consist of a rigorous and fully validated implementation of the SLEUTH model coupled with a spatial statistical model of urban suitability and demographic data. This approach will define a suitability map for urban land cover based on the conditions that are associated with current urban land and areas of recent urban land cover change. Landscape variables, such as soil suitability and non-urban land cover (e.g. forest and agriculture) will be used to define appropriate conditions for urbanization. Socio-economic variables, including lands that are protected through regulatory policies or parks, population density, and others, will also be included. In addition to providing a platform where both landscape characteristics and socio-economic variables can be integrated, this model will provide the opportunity to test and quantify the influence of each of these variables in either attracting or resisting development. Because the model will have a better representation of the landscape in terms of where development is more or less likely to occur, we also anticipate an improvement in the model’s performance. Implementation of the hydrologic component of the project will include intensive field studies at the local scale that will focus on a single highly urbanized watershed, Dead Run, which is a tributary to the Gwynns Falls, the primary study watershed of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study NSF-funded long-term ecological research site. Detailed process studies will be carried out in conjunction with application of the EPA SWMM model to achieve an integrated understanding of controls on water stores and fluxes at the subwatershed scale in a highly urbanized area. Subwatershed fine-scale modeling results results will then be used to determine large-scale effective properties as inputs to PARFLOW CLM of the entire metropolitan region. Combining a physically-based regional hydrologic model with an urban growth model will allow an assessment of the coupled feedbacks between growth projections (and the socio-economic variables that affect growth) and surface and subsurface water resources. Changes in stream baseflow and groundwater availability may in turn influence regulatory decisions on development permits in exurban areas.

==Objectives==
List the main objectives of your project

==Time-line==
Provide (estimated) start date & end date, etc

==Models in use==
Information about models / software you use

==Results==
List the results of your project

==Users==
List the CSDMS HPCC users of your project:
* <name HPCCuser>

==Funding==
Provide your project funding sources including the award number

==Publications and presentations==
This would be the place to list your achievements, journal articles, conference abstracts, etc

==Links==
This would be the place to provide links that are related to your project.

Choose one of the two categories mentioned below, that your project suites the best
[[Category:Lecture project]] [[Category:Research project]]

User:Abhaskar

2012-04-05T15:21:34Z

Abhaskar:

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