How and to what extent does the spatial and temporal discretization schema affect GIS-based hydrological modelling?

Honglin Zhu, Qiming Zhou

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Abstract

The justification of the spatial and temporal discretization schema is a critical step in the development of numerical hydrological models. Currently, the challenge remains in balancing the error and uncertainty induced by the algorithm and the mass calculation caused by the increase of the division of computational units. Thus, it is necessary to investigate an appropriate discretization scheme, which not only adequately represents the spatial heterogeneity characteristics, but also maintains a sufficiently high computational efficiency, with the constraints of the data validity and availability. This poster paper proposed a numerical hydrological model using different spatial and temporal discretization schema. Results show that the running time revealed an increase by an order of magnitude with the refinement of the grid size. The results also show that that the discretization schema impose various influences on different hydrological processes. For the infiltration process, the effect of the spatial and temporal resolution depend on the soil type; for the runoff process, the amount of the runoff was less affected but the time to runoff was significantly influenced. Establishing a standardized method to optimize the range of the spatial-temporal resolution for different the models and environmental scenarios, however, still remains challenge and is the future investigations.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSIGSPATIAL '21: Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
EditorsXiaofeng Meng, Fusheng Wang, Chang-Tien Lu, Yan Huang, Shashi Shekhar, Xing Xie
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages626-629
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9781450386647
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2021
Event29th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, SIGSPATIAL 2021 - Virtual, Online, Beijing, China
Duration: 2 Nov 20215 Nov 2021
https://sigspatial2021.sigspatial.org/
https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3474717

Publication series

NameProceedings of International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

Conference

Conference29th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, SIGSPATIAL 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period2/11/215/11/21
Internet address

Scopus Subject Areas

  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Modelling and Simulation
  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
  • Information Systems

User-Defined Keywords

  • discretization error
  • discretization schema
  • numerical simulation
  • Spatial and temporal resolution

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