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Optimization of digital river network and its impact on catchment water management
Hošek, Zdeněk ; Matoušková, Milada (advisor) ; Šípek, Václav (referee)
Digital river network dataset is an important source of information in any aspect of water management decision making. It is also a base for modelling or scientific research in many different fields. Development of the dataset in the Czech Republic had been fragmented in a past and as a result three different datasets have been developed that cover the whole of the state's territory. The datasets contain different geometries, different and often conflicting attributes and serve different purposes. Today the time has come that water management decision makers have realised that the situation is no longer sustainable and make effort to merge the datasets into one. The task brings in several technical issues and a potential for severe legal consequences. The aim of this study is to develop a methodological approach to merging the existing datasets into one. This methodological approach to decision which of the conflicting or different attributes should be adopted is based on assumption that the existing datasets will be merged into one consisting the best of all. Comparison of features in the existing dataset will inevitably lead to many conflicts when it will be necessary to decide which of the considered features should be adopted to the resulting dataset. The study considers the main purposes which...
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Influence of catchment spatial subdivision on the accuracy of the snow accumulation and snowmelt model
Hájková, Barbora ; Jeníček, Michal (advisor) ; Šípek, Václav (referee)
Influence of catchment spatial subdivision on the accuracy of the snow accumulation and snowmelt model Abstract This thesis is focused on influence of catchment spatial subdivision on the accuracy of rainfall-runoff model simulations. A hydrological model HEC-HMS developed by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was applied in the thesis. Study area includes two experimental catchments; Bystřice River basin and Zlatý Brook basin. Both catchments are located in the Krušné Mountains. The research in catchments has been carried out by the Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology since 2008. The influence of four different horizontal and vertical catchments delineation on runoff simulations was analyzed. The simulations were performed in two two-year periods 11/2008-10/2010 and 11/2010-10/2012. The attention was mainly aimed to snowmelt component of the model, for which temperature index method was chosen. The results of simulations were compared with water stages data measured in catchments outlets and with data from winter field measurements (snow depth and snow water equivalent). The results from both catchments showed that higher accuracy of simulation of the snow water equivalent was reached by dividing the catchments into more elevation zones. However, each of the catchments behaved in different way. The...
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Assessment of physical river habitat diversity of streams. Application in experimental catchments of upper Blanice River.
Stříbrný, Martin ; Matoušková, Milada (advisor) ; Šípek, Václav (referee)
The subject of bachelor thesis was to evaluate the diversity of physical habitat, using three methods of hydromorphological survey. Methodologies with different approaches of evaluation have been applied to model basin Sviňovický stream. Detailed assessment describes the downstream changes in individual characteristics. River basin represents a contrast between the upper stream, which is completely anthropogenically influenced and lower stream which is after restoration. The thesis presents the result of a field survey of different methodologies and evaluates the diversity of habitat in different flow conditions. The results of all three approaches are confirmation of positive impact of restoration to the habitat quality and especially the requirement to modify each methodology to local conditions. Longitudinal development of selected hydromorphological parameters have been observed.
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Modelling of snow interception in the spruce forest in the Ptačí Brook basin, Šumava Mts.
Míka, Dominik ; Jeníček, Michal (advisor) ; Šípek, Václav (referee)
Snow interception is one of the most important process of the hydrological balance of river basins. Measuring of snow interception is a very complex activity, therefore, models are frequently used to calculated snow interception from the vegetation structure and measured meteorological variables. A field research has been carried out in the Ptačí Brook basin in the Sumava Mts. to describe the canopy structure of the spruce forest using hemispherical images taken in the winter season 2020/21. The vegetation characteristics are essential for modelling of the snow interception. The mean Leaf area index calculated from the hemispherical images at the study plot reached 2.34 with the respective canopy closure equal to 86.16%. These values were further used as input values for the calculation of seasonal cumulative snow interception at the study plot for the winter season 2020/21. The original, more complex model was compared with two, less complex equations. Consequently, the model was applied to four consecutive winter seasons 2017-2021. The efficiency of the snow interception (a proportion of the intercepted snow to total snowfall water equivalent) ranged from 36.85% to 45.81% depending on the study season. The snow interception efficiency was considerably higher in the last winter season compared to...
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Seasonal probabilistic hydrological forecasting
Šípek, Václav
Seasonal hydrological forecasts represent a very current topic, especially in the context of extreme hydrological events that have taken place at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century. These events are represented by large scale floods and long lasting periods of drought. This has led to a need for the effective water management strategies. These management strategies have to be able to efficiently distribute water resources both in the space and time. Seasonal hydrological forecasting systems constitute an essential part of water management strategies, as they enable the runoff estimation in a sufficient advance. This thesis deals with the seasonal hydrological forecasting system with a one month lead. The aim of this study is to apply three forecasting methods using an experimental watershed in the Czech Republic. The first method is represented by the reference climatology approach, the latter by the well-tested Ensemble Streamflow Prediction system (ESP), and the last by its newly proposed modification. This modification (modified ESP - mESP) is based on the restriction of input data established on their relations to the large scale climatological variables and patters. The first part of the thesis is focused on the investigation of possible relations among hydrometeorological...
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Snowmelt runoff during rain-on-snow events in the Ptačí brook basin calculated using stable water isotopes
Valdhansová, Klára ; Jeníček, Michal (advisor) ; Šípek, Václav (referee)
Rain-on-snow events represent one of the basic mechanisms causing floods. Rain falling on the snow cover causes enhanced melting and the resulting runoff often exceeds the runoff caused by rain. During the winter seasons 2018 and 2019, water samples from the stream, snowpack and precipitation were repeatedly taken in the the Ptačí Brook catchment in the Šumava mountains, and the concentrations of 2 H and 18 O were measured in the laboratory. Based on the observed isotope ratios 18 O/16 O and 2 H/1 H in combination with other variables measured in the catchment, the two ROS events from 2019 were reconstructed. The ratio of heavy isotopes increased in the snowpack due to ROS events. Using the end member mixing equation, a hydrograph separation was performed for both investigated events. For the first event, it was not possible to clearly separate groundwater from rainfall, and thus the range of snow in the total runoff was determined by its separation from rainfall and subsequent separation from groundwater. The second event examined was separated directly into three components: rainfall, groundwater and snow. According to the analyses, the total runoff during ROS events in both cases was mostly formed by event water (a combination of rainfall and melt water). The melting water from the snow cover...
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Spatial snow distribution in locality with diverse forest structure in the Sumava Mountains
Švejdová, Klára ; Jeníček, Michal (advisor) ; Šípek, Václav (referee)
Snowpack is strongly influenced by several environmental factors. Besides meteorological and topographical conditions, vegetation structure plays an important role. The aim of this bachelor thesis was to assess how the canopy structure affects snow distribution. The snow depth and snow water equivalent (SWE) were measured in a selected location situated in the Kvildský potok basin in the Šumava Moutains during the winter season 2019. Canopy structure was described using Leaf Area Index (LAI) obtained from hemispherical images of the area. The degree-day method was used to calculate melt factors. The influence of vegetation was examined by using the correlation and regression analyses. Snow depth and SWE was significantly lower in forest sites than in the open area and in the forest disturbed by the bark beetle (Ips typographus). The influence of canopy structure was highest during snow accumulation and its importance decreased with time. The SWE variability was largest for last measurement during the melt phase. Melt factor calculated for period between last two field measurements was 2.3 mm∙řC-1 ∙d- 1 .
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Usage of meteorological data in hydrological modelling (case study in upper Vydra catchment)
Vlček, Lukáš ; Šípek, Václav
This paper deals with an evaluation of runoff formation at a small catchment (0.6 km2) consisting of two dominant soil types of the Vydra headwaters. Several Hydro-meteorological parameters have been measured at the study catchment and used in a hydrological model in an effort to estimate a proportion of surface or subsurface flow components and their effects on the outflow process. Chosen hydrological model showed that a greater proportion of an outflow from the catchment is generated, in general, from a peat bog area, mainly due to the lower evapotranspiration from the peatland compared to the mineral soil. On the contrary, during dry periods most of the outflow comes from a mineral soil and a peat bog contributes only to the outflow from the lower, permanently saturated layer.
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