Global evaluation and sensitivity analysis of a physically based flow and reactive transport model on a laboratory experiment

Autor: Claire Lauvernet, Claudio Paniconi, Nadia Carluer, Laura Gatel, Sylvain Weill, Julien Tournebize
Přispěvatelé: RiverLy (UR Riverly), Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA), INRS ETE UNIVERSITE DU QUEBEC CAN, Partenaires IRSTEA, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA), Hydrosystèmes et Bioprocédés (UR HBAN)
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Environmental Modelling and Software
Environmental Modelling and Software, Elsevier, 2019, 113, pp.73-83. ⟨10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.12.006⟩
ISSN: 1364-8152
Popis: International audience; Spatialized physically based models are necessary tools for assessing the fate of pesticides in natural environments transferred by diffuse pollution. In this study the CATHY (CATchment HYdrology) model is coupled with reactive processes (adsorption and degradation). The resulting reactive subsurface component is evaluated on laboratory data by (i) comparing the model performance on experimental data using a combination of statistical criteria, (ii) conducting a Morris sensitivity analysis on both hydrological and solute transfer variables, and (iii) improving the CATHY model parameter settings based on the sensitivity analysis results. The sensitivity analysis produces a ranking of the factors wherein those that are particularly influential on water flow and reactive solute transfer emerge. These are found to be the saturated hydraulic conductivity, the retention curve parameters, and the sorption coefficient. After a calibration of influential parameters based on Morris sensitivity analysis, the results obtained are largely consistent with laboratory data.
Databáze: OpenAIRE