Browsing by Author "Momblanch Benavent, Andrea"

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    Improved modelling of the freshwater provisioning ecosystem service in water scarce river basins
    (Elsevier, 2017-04-10) Momblanch Benavent, Andrea; Paredes-Arquiola, J.; Andreu, Joaquín
    Freshwater provisioning by the landscape contributes to human well-being through water use for drinking, irrigation and other purposes. The assessment of this ecosystem service involves the quantification of water resources and the valuation of water use benefits. Models especially designed to assess ecosystem services can be used. However, they have limitations in representing the delivery of the service in water scarce river basins where water management and the temporal variability of water resource and its use are key aspects to consider. Integrating water resources management tools represents a good alternative to ecosystem services models in these river basins. We propose a modelling framework that links a rainfall-runoff model and a water allocation model which allow accounting for the specific requirements of water scarce river basins. Moreover, we develop a water tracer which rebounds the value of the service from beneficiaries to water sources, allowing the spatial mapping of the service.
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    SusHi-Wat - Monthly maps of snow cover
    (Cranfield University, 2018-02-06 09:13) Snapir, Boris; Waine, Toby; Momblanch Benavent, Andrea; Holman, Ian
    These data were generated for the project Sustaining Himalayan Water Resources in a Changing Climate (SusHi-Wat), which aims at improving our understanding on how water is stored in, and moves through, a Himalayan river system in northern India. The data set contains a list of images (GeoTIFF format) corresponding to monthly maps of dry snow and wet snow for a Himalayan river basin. The maps were obtained by combining satellite remote sensing data from Sentinel-1 and the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). The image resolution is about 500m. The coordinate system is EPSG:4326 The possible pixel values are: 0: no snow 1-100: wet snow cover fraction 101-200: dry snow cover fraction with an offset of 100 240: missing Sentinel-1 data 250: pixel wrongly identified as wet snow by sentinel-1 (false positives) 255: fill value
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    SusHi-Wat: Output of Beas-Sutlej basins systems model
    (Cranfield University, 2018-11-28 11:43) Momblanch Benavent, Andrea; Holman, Ian; Papadimitriou, Lamprini; K. Jain, Sanjay; Kulkarni, Anil; SP Ojha, Chandra; J Adeloye, Adebayo
    This work has been developed under the project 'Sustaining Himalayan Water Resources in a Changing Climate' (SusHi-Wat), which aims at improving understanding of how water is stored in, and moves through, a Himalayan river system in northern India (the inter-linked Beas and Sutlej catchments) and develop and test a robust model of the whole system that can be used to inform current and future decision making to support the sustainable development and management of the region's water resources.The dataset contains the monthly time series of selected output of a water resource systems model built with the Water Evaluation And Planning (WEAP) software for the Beas and Sutlej basins, under different climate and socio-economic scenarios. It was used to derive the results presented in the paper "Untangling the water-food-energy-environment nexus for global change adaptation in a complex Himalayan water resource system", https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.045.Detailed description of the files:'0.Runoff summary.xlsx' - Monthly time series of the total runoff generated upstream Pong and Bhakra reservoirs for the baseline scenario and two climate change scenarios. The column headings correspond to different sub-basins and elevation bands as described in the corresponding paper.'1.WEAP results_Baseline.xlsx'; '1.WEAP results_CC3&SSP1.xlsx'; '2.WEAP results_CC3&SSP2.xlsx'; '3.WEAP results_CC3&SSP5.xlsx'; '4.WEAP results_CC7&SSP1.xlsx'; '5.WEAP results_CC7&SSP2.xlsx'; '6.WEAP results_CC7&SSP5.xlsx' - Monthly time series of several WEAP outputs under different climate and socio-economic change scenarios, i.e. urban demand supply coverage, irrigation demand supply coverage, hydropower energy production, water stored in reservoirs, river flows downstream Pandoh dam, glacier depth, total runoff, snow melt runoff, ice melt runoff, actual evapotranspiration. The column headings correspond to water demands, management infrastructures and sub-basins and elevation bands as described in the corresponding paper.