A novel strategy for estimating groundwater recharge in arid mountain regions and its application to parts of the Jebel Akhdar Mountains (Sultanate of Oman):
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1 MOUNTAINS - *WATER TOWERS* FOR WATER RESOURCES SYSTEMS IN ARID REGIONS
1
2 MOUNTAIN HYDROLOGY AND WATER E 3
2.1 MOUNTAIN HYDROLOGY AND MOUNTAIN-FRONT RECHARGE 3
2.2 ESSENTIAL ASPECTS ** ADVANCE MOUNTAIN HYDROLOGY 6
2.2.1 RAINFALL CHARACTERISTICS AND OPTIONS FOR DATA ACQUISITION 6
2.2.2 GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTIONS AND AVAILABILITY OF
REFERENCE VALUES 7
2.3 APPROACHES TO THE ASSESSMENT OFMOUNTAIN-FRONT RECHARGE 10
2.3.1 OPTIONS TO ASSESS GROUNDWATER RECHARGE 10
2.3.2 ARID ZONE WATER BALANCE MODELLING * OPTIONS AND LIMITATIONS 12
2.3.3 KEY COMPONENTS FOR ASSESSING 15
2.4
LINEAR RESERVOIR MODELS TO DESCRIBE BASE FLOW RECESSION 1 /
3 APPROACHES TO DEAL WITH UNCERTAINTY WITH A SPECIAL FOCUS ON FUZZY SETS
19
3.1 PROBABILITY BASED UNCERTAINTY ASSESSMENT VERSUS FUZZY REASONING 19
3.2 FUZZY SETS AND RELATED METHODS 20
3.3 RANGES OS APPLICATION IN HYDROLOGY AND WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT 27
4 A NOVEL STRATE
2
Y FOR ESTIMATING GROUNDWATER RECHARGE
IN ARID MOUNTAIN REGIONS 29
5 FUZZY-BASED TOOLS TO PORTRAY U N R 31
5.1 FUZZY RECHARGE AREAS: FROM QUALITATIVE DATA TO QUANTITATIVE
CONCLUSIONS 1*
5.1.1 THE CONCEPT OFTHE FUZZY RECHARGE AREAS 31
5.1.2 CONSIDERATION OF ADJACENT BASINS 32
5.2 WATER BALANCE ASSESSMENT BASED ONFUZZY ARITHMETIC 34
5.2
*
OUTLINE OF THE CALCULATION PROCEDURE 34
5.2.2 IMPLEMENTATION OFTHEFIIZZY ARITHMETIC OPERATORS 35
5.2.3 IMPLEMENTATION OFTHE REGIONALISATION APPROACH APLIS 36
6 A CONCEPTUAL HYDROLOGIC MODEL TO ASSESS MOUNTAIN.FRONT RECHARGE 39
6.1 BASIC IDEA 39
6.2 MODEL STRUCTURE 39
6.5 CALCULATION PROCEDURE USING HISTOGRAMS
0
* RAINFALL DEPTHS 41
6.4 NON-LINEAR SEASONAL RAINFALL-RECHARGE RELATIONSHIPS 42
6.4.1 DERIVATION OF THE RAINFALL-RECHARGE RELATIONSHIPS 42
6.4.2 SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS 45
6.4.3 RESPONSE TOCTIONS BASED ON EXTREME PARA^ 47
6.5 SUBSURFACE ROUTING BASED ON LINEAR RESERVOIR MODELS 51
*
CASE STUDY: GROUNDWATER RECHARGE ASSESSMENT FOR THE BARKA REGION (OMAN)
53
7.1 STUDY AREA 56
7.1.1 TOPOGRAPHY 56
7.1.2 CLIMATE 57
7.1.3 EVAPOTRANSPIRATION 58
7.1.4 RAINFALL CHARACTERISTICS 60
7.1.5 GEOLOGY AND HYDROGEOLOGY 66
7.1.6 SOILS 71
7.1.7 RUNOFFCHARACTERISTICS 73
7 1 *8 VEGETATION AND IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE IN MOUNTAIN OASES 75
7.2 RECHARGE MECHANISMS IN THE STUDY AREA 76
7.3 ASSESSMENT OFMOUNTAIN-FRONT RECHARGE - METHODOLOGY 82
7.3.1 DATA PROCESSING OFFUZZY RECHARGE AREAS 82
73.2 DETERMINING RESPONSE UNITS 84
73.3 WATER U E IN MOUNTAIN OASES 85
73.4 LONG-TERM AVERAGE CONSIDERATIONS BASED ON FUZZY ARITHMETIC 86
7.3.5 TIME-DEPENDENT ASSESSMENT USING THE CONCEPTUAL HYDROLOGIC MODEL 87
7.4 ASSESSMENT O F MOUNTAIN-FRONT RECHARGE - RESULTS 91
7.4.1 LONG-TEM AVERAGE CONSIDERATINE 91
7.4.2 TIME-DEPENDENT ESTIMATES 97
7.5 CONSIDERATION O F UNCERTAINTIES 98
7.6 DISCUSSION & CONCLUSIONS 100
7.6 1 WATER RESOURCES ASSESSMENT IN THE STUDY AREA 100
7.6.2 MODELLING APPROACHES 102
8 SUMMARY 105
9 PROSPECTS FOR FUTURE WORK 107
LIST OF FIGURES 108
LIST OF TABLES 110
LIST OF SYMBOLS 111
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 112
APPENDIX 113
A: SENSITIVITY O F THE RESPONSE JUNCTION TO VARIATIONS
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* THE DIFFERENT MODEL PARAMETERS 114
B: HISTOGRAMS
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* SUBSURFACE OUTFLOW AT THE M OITAINFRONT
Q
MFR
BASED ON DIFFERENT PARAMETERISATIONS
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THE CONCEPTUAL HYDROLOGIC MODEL 121
REFERENCES
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