Analysis of Land Use Changes on Groundwater Dynamics

Abstract:

Distributed physically-based models have the predictive capacity to assess the effect of land use changes on groundwater dynamics across a range of scales. MIKESHE, which represents state-of-art of distributed hydrological model, is applied to the Skjern catchment. It is utilized to evaluate hydrologic impacts of land use changes in a watershed. Our overall objective was to quantitatively evaluate the effects of land use changes on watershed hydrology within the 1175 km2 Skjern catchment in Denmark. The results show that the soil is unsaturated and has bigger storage capacity. The groundwater recharge distribution has seasonal characters like the runoff, which mainly concentrated in winter and spring and decreased in summer and autumn.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 601)
• Pages: 186-189
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.601.186
• Online since: December 2012
• Authors: Xiao Hui Lu, Zhou Jun Li, Yang Wang
• Keywords: Distributed Hydrological Model, Hydrology Response, Land Use

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