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A Three-Dimensional, Integrated Seasonal Separate Advection–Diffusion Model (ISSADM) to Predict Water Quality Patterns in the Chahnimeh Reservoir

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Seasonal rivers are the main sources of discharge for many lakes and reservoirs. These rivers can deliver pollutants into these water bodies, especially during large events. The fate and distribution of these pollutants within lakes is difficult to predict. Here, a three-dimensional, finite-volume model for predicting lake water quality is used to account for internal advection and diffusion, including the impacts of the inflowing rivers on the velocity field. We used parsimonious sub-models for the source/sink terms for temperature, dissolved oxygen, ammonia nitrogen, phosphorous, phytoplankton, and zooplankton concentrations and tested the model predictions against field measurements from the Chahnimeh Reservoir in Iran. The modeled water quality parameters were in good agreement with the measured values. Results were notably poorer when the three-dimensionality of the model was removed. This study suggests that properly simulating three-dimensional advection is important to properly predict the distribution of pollutants within some lakes and reservoirs and that this model may be directly applicable to systems similar to Chahnimeh Reservoir.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to express their sincere thanks to Dr. Todd Walter for the invaluable advices and comments. Gratitude is extended to the laboratory of Sistan and Baluchestan Rural Water and Wastewater Office for providing us with the access to the water samples.

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  1. Civil Engineering Department, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran

    S. A. Hashemi Monfared

  2. Civil Engineering Faculty, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

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Hashemi Monfared, S.A., Mirbagheri, S.A. & Sadrnejad, S.A. A Three-Dimensional, Integrated Seasonal Separate Advection–Diffusion Model (ISSADM) to Predict Water Quality Patterns in the Chahnimeh Reservoir. Environ Model Assess 19, 71–83 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10666-013-9376-0

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