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Design documents are a series of technical papers addressing specific design topics on the eastern Snake River Plain Aquifer Model upgrade. Each design document will contain the following information: topic of the design document, how that topic fits into the whole project, which design alternatives were considered and which design alternative is proposed. In draft form, design documents are used to present proposed designs to reviewers. Reviewers are encouraged to submit suggested alternatives and comments to the design document. Reviewers include all members of the Eastern Snake Hydrologic Modeling (ESHM) Committee as well as selected experts outside of the committee. The design document author will consider all suggestions from reviewers, update the draft design document, and submit the design document to the SRPAM Model Upgrade Program Manager. The Program Manager will make a final decision regarding the technical design of the described component. The author will modify the design document and publish the document in its final form in .pdf format on the SRPAM Model Upgrade web site. Final model documentation will include all of the design documents, edited to ensure that the "as-built" condition is appropriately represented. This section outlines the options considered in the process of establishing model boundaries. The purpose of this model is to assist in managing the surface water and ground water resources within the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer and the Snake River. Therefore the model boundaries should encompass the boundaries of the Eastern Snake Plain aquifer. Decisions regarding where to place the model boundary must be made where the Eastern Snake Plain aquifer interfaces with tributary aquifers. These decisions should be based on the model purpose and data availability. Extending model boundaries to bedrock outcrops in tributary basins allows incorporation of seasonal and long-term changes into the model simulation rather than estimating them external to the model. Extending the boundaries to Include land with similar irrigation practices is desirable, if the resulting boundary does not cross a hydrologic barrier. However, there is little value in including a tributary aquifer if there are no data available for that aquifer. If aquifer geometry or aquifer head data do not exist, modeled fluxes and responses to stress in the tributary basin will likely be in error.

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Title:
Model boundary. Technical report 04-016. Scenario document DDM-002
Authors:
Wylie, Allan
Date Created (ISO Standard):
2004-11-15
Description:
Design documents are a series of technical papers addressing specific design topics on the eastern Snake River Plain Aquifer Model upgrade. Each design document will contain the following information: topic of the design document, how that topic fits into the whole project, which design alternatives were considered and which design alternative is proposed. In draft form, design documents are used to present proposed designs to reviewers. Reviewers are encouraged to submit suggested alternatives and comments to the design document. Reviewers include all members of the Eastern Snake Hydrologic Modeling (ESHM) Committee as well as selected experts outside of the committee. The design document author will consider all suggestions from reviewers, update the draft design document, and submit the design document to the SRPAM Model Upgrade Program Manager. The Program Manager will make a final decision regarding the technical design of the described component. The author will modify the design document and publish the document in its final form in .pdf format on the SRPAM Model Upgrade web site. Final model documentation will include all of the design documents, edited to ensure that the "as-built" condition is appropriately represented. This section outlines the options considered in the process of establishing model boundaries. The purpose of this model is to assist in managing the surface water and ground water resources within the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer and the Snake River. Therefore the model boundaries should encompass the boundaries of the Eastern Snake Plain aquifer. Decisions regarding where to place the model boundary must be made where the Eastern Snake Plain aquifer interfaces with tributary aquifers. These decisions should be based on the model purpose and data availability. Extending model boundaries to bedrock outcrops in tributary basins allows incorporation of seasonal and long-term changes into the model simulation rather than estimating them external to the model. Extending the boundaries to Include land with similar irrigation practices is desirable, if the resulting boundary does not cross a hydrologic barrier. However, there is little value in including a tributary aquifer if there are no data available for that aquifer. If aquifer geometry or aquifer head data do not exist, modeled fluxes and responses to stress in the tributary basin will likely be in error.
Subjects:
Aquifers Computer models Boundaries
Location:
Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer; Southern Idaho
Latitude:
42.96
Longitude:
-115.13
Collection:
Boise Basin
Series:
ESPAM
IWRRI number:
2004016
Rights:
Rights to the digital resource are held by the University of Idaho. http://www.uidaho.edu/
Publisher:
Idaho Water Resources Research Institute; University of Idaho
Contributing Institution:
University of Idaho
Type:
Text
Format:
application/pdf
Cataloger:
KIT

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