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Delft3D User Meeting Delft, 03 November 2016 Ingrid Holzwarth Levin Nickelsen Untrim 2 and D-Water Quality for estuarine biogeochemical modeling An example from the Elbe (Germany) Image: Extract of nautical chart ‘Nordsee‘ (2011) Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie Delft

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Delft3D User Meeting

Delft, 03 November 2016

Ingrid Holzwarth

Levin Nickelsen

Untrim2 and D-Water Quality for estuarine biogeochemical modeling

An example from the Elbe (Germany)

Image: Extract of nautical chart ‘Nordsee‘ (2011)

Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie

Delft

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Motivation: estuarine management

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Year Year

mio m3

Development of the amount of maintenance dredging in the Elbe Estuary Diagram: Water and Shipping Administration (WSV), modified. Download https://www.portaltideelbe.de

2010 2011

End of winter

Early May

Late June

Early August

Begin of winter

Measurements from FGG Elbe (www.fgg-elbe.de, download on

30/11/2013)

Interdependencies

and

Restrictions ?

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Mid-term:

Integration of ecological restrictions on sediment management and

estuarine development

Long-term

Feedback between abiotic and biotic processes for a more realistic

simulation of estuarine sediment transport

Motivation for model development

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Untrim2

… produces input files for D-Water Quality

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Untrim2 (CASULLI & STELLING)

computational grid with subgrid bathymetry

Hydrodynamics

Conservative transport

(salt, water temperature, SPMi)

D-WAQ input files

WAQ.utromp2009.vol

WAQ.utromp2009.dat

WAQ.utromp2009.hyd

WAQ.utromp2009.are

WAQ.utromp2009.flo

WAQ.utromp2009.poi

WAQ.utromp2009.srf

WAQ.utromp2009.are

WAQ.utromp2009.vdf

WAQ.utromp2009.atr

WAQ.utromp2009.nc

WAQ.utromp2009.sal

WAQ.utromp2009.tem

WAQ.utromp2009.ssc

Casulli, V. and Stelling, G. S. (2010) Semi-implicit subgrid modelling of three-dimensional free-surface flows,

Int. J. Numer. Meth. Fluids, 67

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Untrim2 and D-Water Quality

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Source: BAW 2016, file Untrim_DWAQ_dataflow.png

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Uniform post-processing

based on UGRID CF NetCDF files

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Uniformly post-processed files

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Source: BAW 2016, Levin Nickelsen & Günther Lang

Hydrodynamic key figure:

mean tidal range [m]

Period of high oxygen concentration [d]

WQ key figure:

Time period exceeding an O2-threshold [d]

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Basic study on relevant estuarine processes

Idealized estuary geometry: funnel shape with 1D-x resolution. Background: topography of the Elbe estuary (as used in: Sehili, A., Lang, G., and Lippert, C. (2014): High-resolution

subgrid models: background, grid generation, and implementation, Ocean Dynamics, 64, 519–535, doi:10.1007/s10236-014-0693-x)

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D-Water Quality

Biogeochemical configuration

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Model skill:

Dissolved oxygen concentrations at specific positions

S1 (Bunthaus): directly upstream of the Port of Hamburg S2 (Seemannshöft): in the Port area Measurements provided by: Institut fuer Hygiene und Umwelt; licence: dl-de/by-2-0 (www.govdata.de/dl-de/by-2-0); www.wgmn.hamburg.de

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Model skill:

Longitudinal (helicopter) transects

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Measurements from FGG Elbe (www.fgg-elbe.de, download on 30/11/2013)

Profiling on 06 Aug 2013 Picture: Ingrid Holzwarth

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Model skill:

Longitudinal (helicopter) transects

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Measurements from FGG Elbe (www.fgg-elbe.de, download on 30/11/2013)

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Sensitivity study

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max growth rate (d-1) mortality (d-1)

nitrification (mmol m-3 d-1) mineralization POC1 (d-1) mineralization DOC (d-1)

Dependency of

the absolute DO

minimum on

several model

parameters.

Grey area

indicates

common range

found in

literature.

our value

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Sensitivity study

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max growth rate (d-1) mortality (d-1)

nitrification (mmol m-3 d-1) mineralization POC1 (d-1) mineralization DOC (d-1)

Dependency of

the absolute DO

minimum on

several model

parameters.

Grey area

indicates

common range

found in

literature.

our value

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Mass balance output: DO fluxes per process

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2011 Primary

production

Mineralization Nitrification Reaeration Sum of all

Jan/Feb 0.1 -5.8 -0.2 40.0 48.5

Mar/Apr 5.7 -24.3 -4.0 0.7 -11.2

May/Jun 16.7 -66.3 -15.4 25.7 -34.1

Jul/Aug 9.5 -67.1 -10.7 28.4 -35.7

Sep/Oct 1.6 -40.4 -6.3 25.9 -18.3

Nov/Dec 0.1 -11.7 -2.6 8.0 -2.7

Table: Mean volumetric DO fluxes in the freshwater zone between km-0 and km-120 in mmol m-3 d-1.

Sum of all contains all process fluxes and transport-related DO exchanges.

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Longitudinal development of DO fluxes

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Daily oxygen fluxes per surface area. ’Sum of all’ also includes advection fluxes which are not depicted in the plots.

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Summary

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Technical environment

Flexible model combination Untrim2 and D-Water Quality

Uniform post-processing based on UGRID CF NetCDF

Large-scale situation

Dominance of heterotrophic processes in the Elbe Estuary

Riverine load controls the estuarine freshwater system

Upcoming work

Transfer to realistic 3D model

Integration of salt sensitivity and (bottom) sediment processes

[email protected]

Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau

22559 Hamburg, Germany

www.baw.de

Thank you for your attention

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Additional material

Temporal aggregation for D-WAQ output

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WQ integration time step mΔt

n

N+1

n+m

N

UnTRIM2 time step Δt n+1

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V n+m

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Qhn+1+θ

… Qhn+m-1+θ

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Modified from: Günther Lang, UUM 2012, p.12, “Horizontal and Vertical Fluxes from UnTRIM2 Results”