Calendar of Future Meetings Involving IWRA

ABSTRACT

Irrigation-water-delivery systems are designed and managed to receive water from a source and to distribute it among farmers in order to meet their agricultural requirements. High system performance can be achieved through rehabilitation of deteriorating and inadequate physical facilities and through improved system management. Various design decisions must be made in order to rehabilitate or develop irrigation-water-delivery systems, including those related to specification of the characteristics of hydraulic structures used to convey regulate, or divert water

This study develops and applies a response surface methodology (RSM) for achieving optimal design for hydraulic structures in irrigation-water-delivery systems in canal networks. This approach provides a means of understanding system behavior through developing a response surface in terms of a mathematical expression representing system performance as affected by design decisions. Design decisions include pipe diameters for diversion and regulating structures. Simulation of steady spatially varied flow was incorporated into the response surface methodology to determine high-performance low-cost solutions.

Objectives of adequacy, efficiency dependability, and equity of water delivery were considered in defining water delivery performance. Fuzzy membership functions were used to address subjectivity associated with interpreting expected values of performance measures associated with each of the prescribed objectives.

This study is an extension of a previous study by Alshaikh [1]. That study reported the application of RSM on a single canal case while herein RSM was used for the case of a canal network. Though, in general, RSMs for large-scale branched systems are computationally intensive, this proposed methodology overcomes this drawback. The approach constitutes a significant easy-to-use step forward in the development of comprehensive systems-scale techniques for the design of structural components of irrigation-water-delivery systems.     

Redefining the Water Poverty Index

Abstract

The Water Poverty Index (WPI) of arid and semiarid climatic zones is redefined by introducing the contribution of rainfed agriculture into WPI calculations and by making the WPI equation account for diversities in climatic conditions within arid and semiarid zones and for recycled household water used in irrigation.     

紫色土丘陵区典型生态-水文单元径流与氮磷输移特征

通过对紫色土丘陵区典型农业-集镇-林地复合型小流域3次降雨-径流全过程的连续监测,测定了径流过程中泥沙含量和不同形态氮磷浓度,以期认识典型农村生态-水文单元降雨径流过程中氮磷迁移规律。结果表明：降雨-径流过程中悬浮泥沙的流失主要集中在径流前期,其峰值出现在雨强最大时;集镇径流污染的影响主要表现在径流前期,是径流前期铵态氮偏高的主因;降雨-径流过程中,颗粒态氮与可溶态氮比（PN/DN）、颗粒态磷与可溶态磷比（PP/DP）的峰值均出现在雨强较大时：其中 PN/DN 多小于1,而 PP/DP 范围为1.1~30.2,说明氮素流失主要通过可溶态的方式,而磷的迁移以颗粒态磷为主。因此在紫色丘陵区建议利用湿地植物与沉砂池等综合措施控制土壤侵蚀和非点源污染以保护当地生态环境安全。     

Analysis and numerical study of a hybrid BGM-3DVAR data assimilation scheme using satellite radiance data for heavy rain forecasts

A fine heavy rain forecast plays an important role in the accurate flood forecast, the urban rainstorm waterlogging and the secondary hydrological disaster preventions. To improve the heavy rain forecast skills, a hybrid Breeding Growing Mode (BGM)-three-dimensional variational (3DVAR) Data Assimilation (DA) scheme is designed on running the Advanced Research WRF (ARW WRF) model using the Advanced Microwave Sounder Unit A (AMSU-A) satellite radiance data. Results show that: the BGM ensemble prediction method can provide an effective background field and a flow dependent background error covariance for the BGM-3DVAR scheme. The BGM-3DVAR scheme adds some effective mesoscale information with similar scales as the heavy rain clusters to the initial field in the heavy rain area, which improves the heavy rain forecast significantly, while the 3DVAR scheme adds information with relatively larger scales than the heavy rain clusters to the initial field outside of the heavy rain area, which does not help the heavy rain forecast improvement. Sensitive experiments demonstrate that the flow dependent background error covariance and the ensemble mean background field are both the key factors for adding effective mesoscale information to the heavy rain area, and they are both essential for improving the heavy rain forecasts.     

暴雨与河流水位涨落耦合作用基坑稳定性分析

雨季施工时基坑工程受暴雨入渗以及邻近河流水位涨落耦合作用,容易发生渗透破坏事故。基于裘布依（Dupuit）假定建立分层地基地下水耦合渗流方程,以此确定在暴雨入渗以及河流水位涨落耦合作用下基坑周边地下水位。同时基于渗流-应力耦合分析理论与Midas分析软件,以某基坑工程实例为研究对象,建立基坑工程渗流-应力耦合分析模型,对基坑工程渗流破坏现象进行分析研究,由此得出了对其它工程有重要参考价值的结论。     

西安市水资源经济系统SD模型研究

在全面了解西安市水资源经济系统现状及其内部结构的基础上,结合西安市现状,运用系统动力学方法,构建了西安市水资源经济系统SD模型,预测了西安市雨水资源利用的前景和经济发展趋势。结果表明:如果西安市按照现有模式发展,则未来经济会受到水资源匮乏问题的严重制约;在其他条件不变的情况下,提高农业用水比例、雨水资源投资比例及雨水资源价值系数,从价格和数量两方面促进雨水资源综合利用,可以在增加城市供水量的同时促进经济发展,实现水资源经济协调可持续发展。     

白鹤滩水电站左岸雾化区边坡稳定性分析

为深入研究雾化雨入渗引发的岩体边坡失稳机制,基于白鹤滩水电站高边坡基本地质条件和稳定性控制边界条件,采用饱和-非饱和渗流有限元分析方法,借鉴饱和-非饱和强度理论,研究了边坡在雾化雨条件下的渗流场变化规律。采用严格Janbu法、Sarma法、不平衡推力法对两岸边坡进行二维极限平衡分析,并且综合分析了雾化区边坡岩体及控制性结构面的强度及荷载变化规律,计算得到雾化区边坡在各种工况条件下稳定性变化规律。分析表明,降雨入渗将使边坡坡面浅部的压力水头抬升,坡脚局部饱和区最大水位升高;同时岩体的抗剪强度减小,边坡稳定性明显下降。     

暴雨衰减指数为函数型的暴雨强度公式确定方法

暴雨强度公式是城镇排水工程设计的基本依据之一。为提高暴雨衰减指数随重现期显著变化时暴雨强度公式的拟合精度,结合实例研究了采用麦夸尔特法确定衰减指数为函数型的五参数暴雨强度公式的方法。计算结果表明,五参数暴雨强度公式能显著提高拟合精度,由该公式计算的残差平方和及各重现期的绝对均方差(即标准差)均明显小于四参数公式的计算结果,其各重现期的绝对均方差均小于0.05mm/min。该方法能有效降低重现期较小与较大时的绝对均方差。此外,给出了麦夸尔特法的计算程序框图,为编写计算程序代码奠定基础。     

青海省海东地区JDZ—1型固态存储雨量器应用分析

对JDZ一1型固态存储雨量器与虹吸自记雨量计平行观测资料进行了系统分析,分析了两者存在误差的影响因素。对JDZ一1型固态存储雨量器在北方高海拔地区使用过程中存在的问题提出了解决方法,以保证和提高JDZ一1型固态存储雨量器资料质量。