@misc{GliegeThomasSteidletal.2016,
  author    = {Gliege, Steffen and Thomas, Bj{\"o}rn Daniel and Steidl, J{\"o}rg and Hohenbrink, Tobias Ludwig and Dietrich, Ottfried},
  title     = {Modeling the impact of ditch water level management on stream-aquifer interactions},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-407613},
  pages     = {17},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {Decreasing groundwater levels in many parts of Germany and decreasing low flows in Central Europe have created a need for adaptation measures to stabilize the water balance and to increase low flows. The objective of our study was to estimate the impact of ditch water level management on stream-aquifer interactions in small lowland catchments of the mid-latitudes. The water balance of a ditch-irrigated area and fluxes between the subsurface and the adjacent stream were modeled for three runoff recession periods using the Hydrus-2D software package. The results showed that the subsurface flow to the stream was closely related to the difference between the water level in the ditch system and the stream. Evapotranspiration during the growing season additionally reduced base flow. It was crucial to stop irrigation during a recession period to decrease water withdrawal from the stream and enhance the base flow by draining the irrigated area. Mean fluxes to the stream were between 0.04 and 0.64 ls(-1) for the first 20 days of the low-flow periods. This only slightly increased the flow in the stream, whose mean was 57 ls(-1) during the period with the lowest flows. Larger areas would be necessary to effectively increase flows in mesoscale catchments.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{DietrichSchweigertSteidletal.2016,
  author    = {Dietrich, Ottfried and Schweigert, Susanne and Steidl, J{\"o}rg and Lischeid, Gunnar},
  title     = {Effects of data and model simplification on the results of a wetland water resource management model},
  series = {Water},
  journal   = {Water},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-407579},
  pages     = {19},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {This paper presents the development of a wetland water balance model for use in a large river basin with many different wetlands. The basic model was primarily developed for a single wetland with a complex water management system involving large amounts of specialized input data and water management details. The aim was to simplify the model structure and to use only commonly available data as input for the model, with the least possible loss of accuracy. Results from different variants of the model and data adaptation were tested against results from a detailed model. This shows that using commonly available data and unifying and simplifying the input data is tolerable up to a certain level. The simplification of the model has greater effects on the evaluated water balance components than the data adaptation. Because this simplification was necessary for large-scale use, we suggest that, for reasons of comparability, simpler models should always be applied with uniform data bases for large regions, though these should only be moderately simplified. Further, we recommend using these simplified models only for large-scale comparisons and using more specific, detailed models for investigations on smaller scales.},
  language  = {en}
}