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Sensitivity of Oregon's Watersheds to Streamflow Changes due to Climate Warming: A
Geohydrological Approach
Mohammad SafeeqDepartment of Geosciences, Oregon State University
Gordon E. GrantUSDA Forest Service
PNW Research Station
Sarah LewisDepartment of Geosciences, Oregon State University
Cristina TagueBren School, University of California, Santa Barbara
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• Develop a theoretical model of streamflow sensitivity to warming
• Apply this model to long-term data from basins across western US; examine empirical trends in streamflow
• Explore sensitivity to warming across basins across Oregon
• Compare with downscaled models
Today’s menu
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Key questions
• Part A:– Can we characterize the summer streamflow
sensitivity to climate change using key watershed controls of drainage efficiency and snowmelt timing?
• Part B: – How does the sensitivity analysis derived from
empirical data correspond with that derived from regional scale hydrologic modeling?
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Streamflow Sensitivity to Climate Change: Approach
1) “Top-down“ Approach :GCM with greenhouse forcing
Downscalling/regionalization
Hydrologic Model
Future Projection
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Streamflow Sensitivity to Climate Change: Approach
1) “Top-down“ Approach :
2) “Bottom-up” Approach:
GCM with greenhouse forcing
Downscalling/regionalization
Hydrologic Model
Future Projection
Future Projection
Hydro-climatic models
Regionalization of Controls
Identify “Key” Controls
Sensitivity derived from empirical data
Future Projection
Hydro-climatic models
Regionalization of Controls
Identify “Key” Controls
Sensitivity derived from empirical data
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Definition of low-flow sensitivity
Sensitivity
Sensitivity
Low Aquifer Permeability (South Santiam Quartzville)
High Aquifer Permeability (McKenzie at Clear Lake)
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Aquifer permeability of selected watersheds
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BFI = area under light blue / Area under dark blue line
Extracting metrics from hydrograph
Baseflow separated using
USGS method by Wahl &
Wahl (1988)
recession constant = k= Δ discharge/time
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Recession constant and BFI explains the variability in aquifer permeability
Fast/Shallow groundwater
Slow/Deep groundwater
Fast/Shallow groundwater
Slow/Deep groundwater
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Basins with high BFI show greater sensitivity
Slow/Deep groundwater
Fast/Shallow groundwater
Sensitivity
Sensitivity
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Basins with low k show greater sensitivity
Fast/Shallow groundwater
Slow/Deep groundwater
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• Filter 1:Timing and Magnitude of Recharge
• Filter 2: Drainage Efficiency
Tague & Grant, 2009
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Implications of CT for summer low flows
North Santiam River below Boulder Cr (Snowmelt dominated)
Luckiamute River near Suver (Rain dominated)
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March 17February 7
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Basins with intermediate CT show greater sensitivity with respect to BFI
<150 days
>200 days
Slow/Deep groundwater
Fast/Shallow groundwater
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Basins with intermediate CT show greater sensitivity with respect to k
Fast/Shallow groundwater
Slow/Deep groundwater
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Conclusions
• Empirical data supports the theory developed in Tague and Grant, 2009
• Late season streamflow sensitivity driven both by precipitation regime (rain vs snow) and drainage efficiency
• Relationship between drainage efficiency and low flow sensitivity is strongest for intermediate CT basins with significant variability.
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Key questions
• Part A:– Can we characterize the summer streamflow
sensitivity to climate change using key watershed controls of drainage efficiency and snowmelt timing?
• Part B: – How does the sensitivity analysis derived from
empirical data correspond with that derived from regional scale hydrologic modeling?
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Comparing sensitivities derived from empirical and VIC simulated streamflow data
Fast/Shallow groundwater
Slow/Deep groundwater
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Comparing sensitivities derived from empirical and VIC simulated streamflow data
Calibrated basins
Fast/Shallow groundwater
Slow/Deep groundwater
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Comparing sensitivities derived from empirical and VIC simulated streamflow data
Un-calibrated basins
Fast/Shallow groundwater
Slow/Deep groundwater
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Conclusions
• VIC does not capture the distinction in behaviors of basins with low and high drainage efficiency
• In un-calibrated basins VIC under predicts the sensitivity in low k and over predicts in high k basins
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Oregon Hydrologic Landscape
Classification
Oregon Hydrologic Landscapes Map from EPA, Wigington in review
Oregon Hydrologic Landscape
Classification
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Centroid of timing Recession constant, k
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Extra Slides
www.fsl.orst.edu/wpg
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Comparison of Recession constants calculated using events>15 days vs. using MRC analysis
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Distribution of basins based on CT
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Freq
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Fast/Shallow groundwaterSlow/Deep groundwater