Water Balance Assessment Using Geospatial Techniques: A Review

Abanish Kumar*, Shruti Kanga**, Sudhanshu***
* Research Scholar, Geoinformatics at Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, India.
** Assistant Professor and Coordinator, Centre for Climate Change & Water Research, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, India.
*** Chief Mentor & Professor, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, India.
Periodicity:August - October'2018
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jfet.14.1.15254

Abstract

Water balance analysis for estimation of the supply/demand scenario utilizes geospatial approach that plays a very important role in worldwide research. Water balance is based on the law of conservation of mass, which states that any change in the water content of a given soil volume during a specified period must be equal to the difference between the amount of water added to the soil volume and the amount of water withdrawn from it. It helps to quantify the relationships between precipitation, surface and groundwater runoff, evaporation, evapotranspiration and aquifer drafts, and provide a framework for future planning of sustainable exploitation of the available water resources. This paper has discussed about the review of literatures in the field of water balance assessment. The water balance assessment of any area, an agricultural land, watershed, or a continent can be estimated by calculating the input, output, and storage changes of water components at the Earth's surface. From the review of research papers it is evident that a lot of research has been carried out and lot of models, such as SWAT, TM, GRACE, MIKE SHE, etc., have been developed for the evaluation of water balance assessment. Their analysis could be used for the study area to assess the water balance analysis for estimation of the supply/demand scenario, viz. evaporation, evapotransipiration, surface runoff, crop water requirement, inflow, outflow, and change in water storage as it requires exploring water balance components to overcome overexploitation or water scarcity in the study area.

Keywords

Water Balance, Remote Sensing, GIS, Evaporation, Evapotranspiration, Surface Runoff.

How to Cite this Article?

Kumar, A.,Kanga, S. and Sudhanshu. (2018). Water Balance Assessment Using Geospatial Techniques: A Review. i-manager’s Journal on Future Engineering and Technology, 14(1), 55-63. https://doi.org/10.26634/jfet.14.1.15254

References

[1]. Arnold, J. G., Moriasi, D. N., Gassman, P. W., Abbaspour, K. C., White, M. J., Srinivasan, R., ... & Kannan, N. (2012). SWAT: Model use, calibration, and validation. Transactions of the ASABE, 55(4), 1491-1508.
[2]. Azarderakhsh, M., Rossow, W. B., Papa, F., Norouzi, H., & Khanbilvardi, R. (2011). Integrating Terrestrial Water Balance in the Amazon Basin using Remote Sensing Data. Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, 148-227.
[3]. Bhange, H. N., Deshmukh, V. V., Rajankar, P. B., Ayare, B. L., Gharde, K. D., & Patil, S. T. (2015). Estimation of Runoff from Watershed using Remote Sensing and GIS. International Journal of Engineering Innovation & Research, 3(6).
[4]. Bhattacharya, T., Aggarwal, S. P., & Garg, V. (2013). Estimation of water balance components of Chambal River basin using a macroscale hydrology model. International Journal of Engineering Innovation & Research, 3(2), 1-6.
[5]. Golmohammadi, G., Rudra, R., Prasher, S., Madani, A., Mohammadi, K., Goel, P., & Daggupatti, P. (2017). Water budget in a tile drained watershed under future climate change using SWATDRAIN model. Climate, 5(2), 39.
[6]. McCabe, G. J., & Wolock, D. M. (2013). Temporal and spatial variability of the global water balance. Climatic Change, 120(1-2), 375-387.
[7]. Gunkel, A., Shadeed, S., Hartmann, A., Wagener, T., & Lange, J. (2015). Model signatures and aridity indices enhance the accuracy of water balance estimations in a data-scarce Eastern Mediterranean catchment. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 4, 487-501.
[8]. Gupta, A., Thakur, P. K., Nikam, B. R., & Chouksey, A. (2014). Water balance study of Narmada River Basin: An Integrated Approach using Remote Sensing and GIS Tools and Techniques. Proceedings of the 3rd National Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE).
[9]. Gupta, P., Nayak, T. R., & Choudhary, M. K. (2015). GIS based water balance study for estimation of runoff in a small river watershed. Journal of Indian Water Resources Society, 35(3), 26-33.
[10]. Herrmann, F., Keller, L., Kunkel, R., Vereecken, H., & Wendland, F. (2015). Determination of spatially differentiated water balance components including groundwater recharge on the Federal State level–A case study using the mGROWA model in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany). Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 4, 294- 312.
[11]. Jain, S. K., Jain, S. K., Hariprasad, V., & Choudhry, A. (2011). Water balance study for a basin integrating remote sensing data and GIS. Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 39(2), 259-270.
[12]. Jian, S., Zhao, C., Fang, S., & Yu, K. (2015). Effects of different vegetation restoration on soil water storage and water balance in the Chinese Loess Plateau. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 206, 85-96.
[13]. Kanga, S., Sharma, L. K., Pandey, P. C., Nathawat, M. S., & Sinha, S. (2011). Geospatial approach for allocation of potential tourism gradient sites in a part of Shimla District in Himachal Pradesh, India. Journal of GIS Trends, 2(1), 1-6.
[14]. Kanga S., & Singh S. K. (2017). Forest fire simulation modeling using remote sensing & GIS. International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science, 8(5), 326- 332.
[15]. Kanga, S., & Singh, S. K. (2017). Role of GIS in Creation of Spatial Socio Economic Indicators of Bilaspur District, HP (India). Journal of Arts, Science and Commerce International Refereed Research Journal, 2(10), 48-55.
[16]. Kanga, S., Sharma, L. K., & Nathawat, M. S. (2015). Himalayan Forest Fires Risk Management: A Geospatial Approach. Lambert Academic Publishing.
[17]. Kanga, S. (2017). Forest cover and land use mapping using remote sensing and GIS Technology. Suresh Gyan Vihar University Journal of Climate Change and Water, 1(2), 13-17.
[18]. Klöcking, B., & Haberlandt, U. (2002). Impact of land use changes on water dynamics––A case study in temperate meso and macroscale river basins. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 27(9-10), 619-629.
[19]. Krysanova, V., Bronstert, A., & Müller-Wohlfeil, D. I. (1999). Modelling river discharge for large drainage basins: From lumped to distributed approach. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 44(2), 313-331.
[20]. Móricz, N. (2010). Water balance study of a groundwater-dependent oak forest. Acta Silvatica Et Lignaria Hungarica: An International Journal in Forest, Wood And Environmental Sciences, 6, 49-66.
[21]. Pal, B., & Samanta, S. (2011). Surface runoff estimation and mapping using remote sensing and geographic information system. Int. J. Adv. Sci. Technol., 3(2), 106-114.
[22]. Panagopoulos, A., Arampatzis, G., Kuhr, P., Kunkel, R., Tziritis, E., & Wendland, F. (2015). Area-differentiated modeling of water balance in Pinios river Basin, central Greece. Global NEST Journal, 17(2), 221-235.
[23]. Raghavendra, R. K., & Cholke, S. (2017). Assessment of watershed based water balance for Irrigation Scheduling through Geospatial Technique. International Journal of Engineering Technology Science and Research (IJETSR), 4(8), 1128-1134.
[24]. Shen, H., Leblanc, M., Frappart, F., Seoane, L., O'grady, D., Olioso, A., & Tweed, S. (2017). A comparative study of GRACE with continental evapotranspiration estimates in Australian semi-arid and arid basins: Sensitivity to climate variability and extremes. Water, 9(9), 614.
[25]. Singh, S. K., Mishra, S. K., & Kanga, S. (2017). Delineation of groundwater potential zone using geospatial techniques for Shimla city, Himachal Pradesh (India). International Journal for Scientific Research and Development, 5(4), 225-234.
[26]. Singh, S. K., Saklani, B., Prakash, S., Chauhan, R., & Gupta, H. (2014). Geospatial Approach for Decentralised Planning at Rajhana Panchayat, Himachal Pradesh. International Journal of Advancement in Remote Sensing, GIS and Geography, 2(2), 27-43.
[27]. Thapa, B. R., Ishidaira, H., Pandey, V. P., & Shakya, N. M. (2017). A multi-model approach for analyzing water balance dynamics in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 9, 149-162.
[28]. Thompson, S. E., Harman, C. J., Troch, P. A., Brooks, P. D., & Sivapalan, M. (2011). Spatial scale dependence of ecohydrologically mediated water balance partitioning: A synthesis framework for catchment ecohydrology. Water Resources Research, 47(10),143-158.
[29]. Uniyal, B., Jha, M. K., & Verma, A. K. (2015). Assessing climate change impact on water balance components of a river basin using SWAT model. Water Resources Management, 29(13), 4767-4785.
[30]. Usmanov, S., Mitani, Y., & Kusuda, T. (2016). An integrated hydrological model for water balance estimation in the Chirchik River Basin, Northern Uzbekistan. Computational Water, Energy, and Environmental Engineering, 5(3), 87-97.
[31]. White, E. D., Easton, Z. M., Fuka, D. R., Collick, A. S., Adgo, E., McCartney, M., & Steenhuis, T. S. (2011). Development and application of a physically based landscape water balance in the SWAT model. Hydrological Processes, 25(6), 915-925.
[32]. Yang, Y., Liu, Y., Cao, S., & Cheng, Y. (2017). A method of evaluating water resource assets and liabilities: A case study of Jinan City, Shandong Province. Water, 9(8), 575.
[33]. Yin, Z., Feng, Q., Zou, S., & Yang, L. (2016). Assessing variation in water balance components in mountainous inland river basin experiencing climate change. Water, 8(10), 472.
[34]. Zhang, D., Chen, X., Yao, H., & Lin, B. (2015). Improved calibration scheme of SWAT by separating wet and dry seasons. Ecological Modelling, 301, 54-61.
If you have access to this article please login to view the article or kindly login to purchase the article

Purchase Instant Access

Single Article

North Americas,UK,
Middle East,Europe
India Rest of world
USD EUR INR USD-ROW
Online 15 15

Options for accessing this content:
  • If you would like institutional access to this content, please recommend the title to your librarian.
    Library Recommendation Form
  • If you already have i-manager's user account: Login above and proceed to purchase the article.
  • New Users: Please register, then proceed to purchase the article.