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TIME and SICS modeling of surface water and interactions with ground water

Entry ID: USGS_SOFIA_swain_gwsw_flow_trans_04

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Summary

Abstract: This project focuses on the implementation, verification, and validation of a system of coupling numerical models to represent the interaction between the ground-water and surface-water systems in the SICS and TIME areas. In this investigation, multidimensional coupled surface-water/ ground-water models have been developed for the southern Florida wetlands and offshore area. The initial ... surface-water model, the SICS model, represents the southeast coastal region with the two-dimensional dynamic wave model SWIFT2D. The coupling with the SEAWAT three-dimensional ground-water model allows leakage to be represented with salinity transfer included. In order to represent regional restoration scenarios, the SICS model is to be linked via boundary water levels to the regional South Florida Water Management Model. Uses of this modeling system will include nutrient transport simulations for determining the fate of phosphorous and nitrogen in the coastal wetland system. The same modeling system is in the process of being expanded to the west and north to form the TIME domain. This encompasses more of the structural controls in the area and allows for the representation of Shark Slough flows.

The results of the numerical modeling and scenario testing provide essential information and insight into the flow system and how it responds to the variations in hydrologic input. The computed flows and salinity exchange at the coast are to be used as boundary conditions for circulation models of Florida Bay, which are to be used to assess the effects of systemic changes on biota in the bay. The computed flows also are used to calibrate the regional water management models boundary. The nutrient transport simulations will yield information on the effects of various scenarios on nutrient levels in the wetlands and offshore The objectives of this project are to integrate field process studies, represent relevant factors affecting flow in the coastal Everglades, and test restoration alternatives. Field process studies develop all the major factors that affect flow and transport: evapotranspiration, frictional resistance, topography and more. These are used to construct and test the initial surface-water model. Construction of the ground-water model is also dependent on data collected for aquifer parameters and boundaries. This incremental model development is continued by linkage to regional model output for scenario evaluation and the expansion of the SICS model area to create the TIME domain.

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Description: map of southern Florida showing the active model domains of SICS and TIME and the SFWMM grid

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Spatial coordinates

N: 25.98

S: 25.03

E: -80.3

W: -81.56

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: Eric Swain Melinda Wolfert

Dataset Title: TIME and SICS modeling of surface water and interactions with ground water

Dataset Release Date: 2003

Data Presentation Form: computer model

Online Resource: http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/coupling/

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 2000-10-01

Stop Date: 2006-09-31

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > FLORIDA

Science Keywords

BIOSPHERE > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > WETLANDS

TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > GROUND WATER > GROUND WATER DISCHARGE/FLOW

ISO Topic Category

ENVIRONMENT

INLAND WATERS

Project

USGS_SOFIA > South Florida Information Access

Access Constraints None

Use Constraints None

Ancillary Keywords

Collier County

Miami-Dade County

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Data Center

SOUTH FLORIDA INFORMATION ACCESS, FLORIDA INTEGRATED SCIENCE CENTER, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Data Center URL: http://sofia.usgs.gov/

Data Center Personnel
Name: HEATHER S. HENKEL Phone: 727.803.8747 ext. 3028 Fax: 727.803.2032 Email: hhenkel at usgs.gov Contact Address: USGS-FISC-St. Petersburg 600 Fourth St. South City: St. Petersburg Province or State: FL Postal Code: 33701 Country: USA

Personnel

ERIC D. SWAIN

Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Phone: 305 717-5825

Fax: 305 717-5801

Email: edswain at usgs.gov

Contact Address:

U.S. Geological Survey

3110 SW 9th Avenue

City: Fort Lauderdale

Province or State: FL

Postal Code: 33315

Country: USA

ALICIA ALEMAN

Role: DIF AUTHOR

Email: alicia.m.aleman at nasa.gov

Contact Address:

Goddard Space Flight Center

Code 610.2

City: Greenbelt

Province or State: MD

Postal Code: 20771

Country: USA

Publications/References

Swain. E. D, 1999, Numerical Representation of Dynamic Flow and Transport at the Everglades/Florida Bay Interface, Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Ecohydraulics, Salt Lake City, UT, International Association for Hydraulic Research. http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/papers/numeric/

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2007-04-03

Last DIF Revision Date: 2009-02-10

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