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- Title
Impacts of spatial resolution and representation of flow connectivity on large-scale simulation of floods.
- Authors
Mateo, Cherry May R.; Dai Yamazaki; Hyungjun Kim; Adisorn Champathong; Jai Vaze; Taikan Oki
- Abstract
Global-scale river models (GRMs) are core tools for providing consistent estimates of global flood hazard, especially in data-scarce regions. Due to former limitations in computational power and input datasets, most GRMs have been developed to use simplified representations of flow physics and run at coarse spatial resolutions.With increasing computational power and improved datasets, the application of GRMs to finer resolutions is becoming a reality. To support development in this direction, the suitability of GRMs for application to finer resolutions needs to be assessed. This study investigates the impacts of spatial resolution and flow connectivity representation on the predictive capability of a GRM, CaMa-Flood, in simulating the 2011 extreme flood in Thailand. Analyses show that when single downstream connectivity (SDC) is assumed, simulation results deteriorate with finer spatial resolution; Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency coefficients decreased by more than 50% between simulation results at 10 km resolution and 1 km resolution. When multiple downstream connectivity (MDC) is represented, simulation results slightly improve with finer spatial resolution. The SDC simulations result in excessive backflows on very flat floodplains due to the restrictive flow directions at finer resolutions. MDC channels attenuated these effects by maintaining flow connectivity and flow capacity between floodplains in varying spatial resolutions. While a regional-scale flood was chosen as a test case, these findings should be universal and may have significant impacts on large- to globalscale simulations, especially in regions where mega deltas exist.These results demonstrate that a GRM can be used for higher resolution simulations of large-scale floods, provided that MDC in rivers and floodplains is adequately represented in the model structure.
- Subjects
RIVERS; FLOODS; GRAPH connectivity; FREE resolutions (Algebra); BINOMIAL coefficients; MATHEMATICAL models; COMPUTER network resources
- Publication
Hydrology & Earth System Sciences, 2017, Vol 21, Issue 10, p5143
- ISSN
1027-5606
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/hess-21-5143-2017