Abstract
The determination of actual evapotranspiration (ET) plays a crucial role in hydrological modelling; however, it is subject to multiple sources of uncertainty. Sophisticated energy-based methods, such as METRIC, may lead to varying results based on different initial and boundary conditions. In this study, the relationship between groundwater withdrawal and the uncertainty effects of ET was explored by incorporating the uncertainty of the calculated ET values through an ensemble-based implementation of the METRIC model into the comprehensive interval-based water balance model, which includes surface and groundwater modules developed in terms of gray value model. The developed interval of ET is based on 20 members with different hot/cold pixels to provide interval-based monthly ET values. The study area is the Ghorveh–Dehgolan basin, a developed and mountainous sub-basin of the Sefidrood watershed with three alluvial aquifers in Northern Iran. The paradigm shift from deterministic hydrological structure to interval-based hydrologic structure improved the statistical metrics of the model responses, such as the streamflow KGE metric of the calibration and validation datasets, which improved from (0.5, 0.18) to (0.57, 0.49), respectively. Additionally, the proposed approach decreased the uncertainty level tied to the simulated streamflow and groundwater levels. Based on the results, normalized uncertainty efficiency (NUE) values of the simulated streamflow and groundwater level values increased as well.
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Abbreviations
- EO:
-
Earth observation (mm)
- ET:
-
Evapotranspiration (mm)
- SEB:
-
Surface energy balance
- PM:
-
Penman–Monteith
- MT:
-
Mass transfer
- SEBS:
-
Surface energy balance system
- METRIC:
-
Mapping Evapotranspiration at High Resolution with Internalized Calibration
- SEBAL:
-
Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land
- LAI:
-
Leaf area index
- NDVI:
-
Normalized difference vegetation index
- IRIMO:
-
Islamic Republic of Iran Meteorological Organization
- MIDW:
-
Modified inverse distance weighting
- MODIS:
-
Moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer
- MOST:
-
Monin–Obukhov similarity theory
- GLUE:
-
Generalized likelihood uncertainty estimation
- GT:
-
Groundwater threshold (m)
- IBWB:
-
Interval-based water balance
- NSE:
-
Nash–Sutcliff
- KGE:
-
Gupta efficiency
- MSE:
-
Mean square error
- R 2 :
-
Coefficient of determination
- SCE-UA:
-
Shuffled Complex Evolution
- ETins :
-
Instantaneous ET (mm/h)
- R n :
-
Net radiation flux (W/m2)
- G :
-
Soil heat flux (W/m2)
- H :
-
Sensible heat flux (W/m2)
- Λ :
-
Latent heat of vaporization (J/(kg K))
- \(R_{s \downarrow }\) :
-
Incoming shortwave radiation (W/m2)
- \(R_{l \downarrow }\) :
-
Incoming longwave radiation (W/m2)
- \(R_{l \uparrow }\) :
-
Outgoing longwave radiation (W·m−2)
- \(G_{{{\text{sc}}}}\) :
-
Solar constant (1367 W/m2)
- \(\theta\) :
-
Solar incidence angle (rad)
- \(d_{{\text{r}}}\) :
-
Inverse squared relative earth-sun distance (1/m2)
- \({\mathcal{T}}_{{{\text{sw}}}}\) :
-
Atmospheric transmissivity (dimensionless)
- \(\varepsilon_{{\text{a}}}\) :
-
Atmospheric thermal emissivity (dimensionless)
- \(\sigma\) :
-
Stefan–Boltzmann constant (5.67 × 10–8 W/(m2K4))
- T a :
-
Air temperature (K)
- T s :
-
Land surface temperature (K)
- \(\varepsilon_{{\text{s}}}\) :
-
Surface thermal emissivity (dimensionless)
- Z :
-
Elevation (M)
- \(e_{0}\) :
-
Water vapor pressure (kPa)
- H :
-
Sensible heat flux
- \(\rho_{a}\) :
-
Air density at constant pressure (kg·m−3)
- \(C_{{\text{p}}}\) :
-
Specific heat capacity of air at constant pressure (J·kg−1·K−1)
- \(r_{{\text{a}}}\) :
-
Aerodynamic resistance to heat transport (s·m−1)
- \({\text{d}}T\) :
-
Temperature difference between two specific heights (K)
- \(C_{{\text{H}}}\) :
-
Heat exchange coefficient (dimensionless)
- U :
-
Wind speed at the reference height (m·s−1)
- \(ET_{r} F\) :
-
Ratio of the instantaneous actual ET to the instantaneous ETr (dimensionless)
- ETins :
-
ET obtained from standardized Penman–Monteith equation (mm/h)
- \({\text{ET}}_{{{\text{month}}}}\) :
-
Monthly actual ET (mm/month)
- \({\text{ET}}_{{r,{\text{month}}}}\) :
-
Reference ET at monthly temporal resolution (mm/month)
- X :
-
Simulated and observed variables
- \(\overline{X}\) :
-
Mean
- R :
-
Correlation coefficient
- σ :
-
Ratio of the mean simulated values to the mean observed ones
- β :
-
The ratio of the standard deviation of the simulations to that of observations
- \(R_{0}\) :
-
Maximum theoretical correlation
- Sim:
-
Simulated values
- Obs:
-
Observed values
- ARIL:
-
Average Relative Interval Length. The amplitude of the uncertainty bands versus the observed values
- \(P_{{{\text{level}}}}\) :
-
Describes how much of the observed data is grouped by the computed uncertain bands
- UpLi:
-
Upper values of the uncertainty bands of the confidence intervals
- LoLi:
-
Lower values of the uncertainty bands of the confidence intervals
- NUE:
-
Normalized Uncertainty Efficiency
- \(\omega\) :
-
Scale coefficient
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Khodadadi, M., Maleki Roozbahani, T., Taheri, M. et al. The effect of embedding actual evapotranspiration uncertainty in water balance model: coupling of interval-based hydrologic model and METRIC method. Acta Geophys. 72, 1985–2007 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11600-023-01112-6
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