dc.contributor.author | Ogembo, William Onyango | |
dc.contributor.author | Ndwallah, Benjamin Okelloh | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-07-03T09:11:18Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-07-03T09:11:18Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2000 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Limitations of hydrodynamical models with limited data available case study: Sondu river basin (Kenya) | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11295/86084 | |
dc.description.abstract | The Surface Water Modeling System (SMS) model has been incorporated in the Sediment
Transport and Watershed Management Component of the FRIEND/NILE project as a
research tool for presenting practical solutions for sediment transport problems. In order to
predict sediment transport and deposition in selected river sections within the Nile river
basin, the SMS model is being tested for its suitability for hydrodynamic modeling in rivers
and reservoirs. The paper therefore discusses the use of SMS to predict water depth, stream
velocity, sediment loadings and bed elevation changes in the Sondu Miriu River in Kenya. In
addition the paper also discusses the problems experienced with SMS in modeling
meandering rivers with low volumes of discharge as well as limited cross-sectional data
regarding the river channel width, and water level data corresponding with the discharges at
specified times, and discusses how the limited data availability affects the quality of the
results obtained by SMS. The paper discusses the possible measures that were taken to
resolve the problem of data gaps. Comparing the results from the model run with field data
provided some validation; this shows that the dryness of the channel that is predicted by the
model is also observed in the field. The paper also gives recommendations on the workability
of the SMS model on various rivers. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.title | Limitations of hydrodynamical models with limited data available case study: Sondu river basin (Kenya) | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.type.material | en_US | en_US |