GroMoPo Metadata for Santa Barbara USGS SEAWAT model

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GroMoPo Sacha Ruzzante

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Abstract

The city of Santa Barbara, in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) California Water Science Center, developed a three-dimensional density-dependent groundwater-flow and solute-transport model (the Santa Barbara Flow and Transport Model, or SBFTM), based on an existing groundwater-flow model, to simulate seawater intrusion into the Santa Barbara basin under various management strategies. In 2014, California adopted historic legislation to manage its groundwater: the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA). Santa Barbara is interested in developing a better understanding of the sustainability of its groundwater supplies to avoid undesirable results: significant and unreasonable groundwater-level declines, reduction in groundwater storage, seawater intrusion, water-quality degradation, land subsidence, and surface-water depletion. The SBFTM uses the USGS code SEAWAT to simulate salinity transport and variable-density flow. The completed SBFTM was coupled with a management optimization tool, Borg, to develop five optimization scenarios that allow the decision makers to evaluate a range of optimal solutions given current water levels and chloride concentrations, and possible future climatic conditions. This USGS data release contains all of the input and output files for the simulations described in the associated model documentation report (https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20185059)

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Coverage

Spatial

Coordinate System/Geographic Projection:

WGS 84 EPSG:4326

Coordinate Units:

Decimal degrees

Place/Area Name:

United States

North Latitude

34.4679°

East Longitude

-119.6522°

South Latitude

34.3898°

West Longitude

-119.7869°

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Additional Metadata

Name	Value
DOI	10.5066/F74J0DF5
Depth	335
Scale	< 100 kmÂ²
Layers	>20 layers
Purpose	groundwater resources;groundwater contamination;salt water intrusion;decision support
GroMoPo_ID	6
IsVerified	True
Model Code	MODFLOW
Model Link	http://doi.org/10.5066/F74J0DF5
Model Time	1929-2013
Model Year	2018
Model Authors	T. Nishikawa, S. R. Paulinski, G. Cromwell, S. E. Bryce, Z. P. Stanko
Model Country	United States
Data Available	input and output publicly available;Geological input available
Developer Email	tnish@usgs.gov
Dominant Geology	unconsolidated
Developer Country	USA
Publication Title	SEAWAT model used to evaluate water management issues in the Santa Barbara and Foothill groundwater basins, California
Original Developer	No
Additional Information	In this project, a cooperative study between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the city of Santa Barbara, sustainable yield is defined as the volume of groundwater that can be pumped from storage without causing water level drawdowns and the associated increases in seawater intrusion (as indicated by increases in measured chloride concentrations) at selected wells. In order to estimate the sustainability of Santa Barbaraâ€™s groundwater basins, a three-dimensional density-dependent groundwater-flow and solute-transport model (the Santa Barbara Flow and Transport Model, or SBFTM) was developed on the basis of an existing groundwater-flow model. To simulate seawater intrusion to the Santa Barbara Basin under various management strategies, the SBFTM uses the USGS code SEAWAT to simulate salinity transport and variable-density flow. The completed SBFTM was coupled with a management optimization tool, in this case a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm, to determine optimal pumping strategies that maximize the sustainable yield and at the same time satisfy user-defined drawdown and chloride concentration constraints.
Integration or Coupling	Solute transport;Borg, a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm used for management optimization
Evaluation or Calibration	dynamic water levels;contaminant concentrations
Geologic Data Availability

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GroMoPo, S. Ruzzante (2023). GroMoPo Metadata for Santa Barbara USGS SEAWAT model, HydroShare, http://www.hydroshare.org/resource/b4c591dbd6db4549924627f45a415983

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