Temporal evaluation of snow depletion curves derived for upper euphrates basin and applications of snowmelt runoff model (srm)

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2008
Marım, Gökhan
Water is becoming very important issue day by day with descending usable water and energy resources. In the aspect of water resources management, especially for the optimum reservoir management, predicting runoff for large reservoirs by applying hydrologic model is a recent and crucial topic. The most important model input and predictor parameters to estimate runoff for the mountainous regions are to be distribution of rainfall; temperature and snow cover area, (SCA). It is seen that many predictor variables should be integrated with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing Techniques especially for hydrologic model variable preparation. Satellite products have the potential for obtaining those kinds of data in near real time. In this study, the changes of SDC are generated by the analysis of optical satellite and by using SDC as an input to hydrological models runoff is simulated for Upper Euphrates Basin (10215.7 km2) which is a sub basin of Euphrates Basin. Largest dams of Turkey; Keban, Karakaya and Atatürk are located on Euphrates River. Optimum operations of these dams depend on forecasting incoming water in early summer season. Euphrates River is fed mainly from snowmelts in spring or early summer time.65-70 % of the annual flow is contributed from snowmelt in that region. Main objective of this study is to obtain the spatially and temporally distributed SCA percentages from optical satellite, which are required as one of the main input variables of the hydrological model used in the application. SCA percentages and SDC are obtained for snowmelt years 2004-2007 by using high temporal resolution optical remote sensing data: Terra Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). In this study, Terra MODIS snow cover map product, MOD10A1 which has a spatial resolution of 500 m is used. As a hydrological model Snowmelt Runoff Model (SRM) was applied. SRM was built up on the well-known degree day approach. In this study SRM is simulated for two years 2006 and 2007.The simulation results are compared and resultant model parameters are obtained for future runoff forecast studies. In this study, beside recommendations, discussions on the variables and SRM parameters are also provided.

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G. Marım, “Temporal evaluation of snow depletion curves derived for upper euphrates basin and applications of snowmelt runoff model (srm),” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2008.