A modeling assessment of large-scale hydrologic alteration in south american Pantanal due to upstream dam operation
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Resumo: | Natural river flow provides the conditions required to sustain freshwater ecosystems, and the greater the departure from the natural regime, the greater the loss of those ecosystems. In South America, new hydropower dams are continuously being constructed and planned in regions within and around the Amazon basin and in the Upper Paraguay river basin, a region notable for the Pantanal, a huge wetland ecosystem that is largely dependent on the flow regime of the Paraguay river and its tributaries. In this context, it is meaningful to examine the hydrological changes caused by the major Manso dam, that is operating since 2001 at the headwaters of one of the major tributaries of the Paraguay river. This was done for the same case study by other authors in previous studies using only gauging stations data. However, those previous assessments were limited due to the confounding effects of climate variability and the necessity of relatively long term observed time series. Here, we applied a modeling approach to evaluate the changes in hydrological regime caused by Manso dam operation. Our modeling approach was based on the combination of the MGB large-scale hydrologic model with the SIRIPLAN large-scale wetland model. The models were applied, using river reaches from 2 to 10 km, in two scenarios during the period from 2003 to 2015. In the first scenario we used naturalized streamflow at the dam site as input to the hydrological model. In the second scenario we used observed reservoir outflow time series as input to the hydrological model. Our results show that Manso dam has a regulation effect that decreases high flows, increases low flows and reduces lateral connectivity. The decrease in high flows is more pronounced in the region upstream of the Pantanal floodplain, but not limited to, while increase in low flows extends into Pantanal. Timing of maximum and minimum flows is less affected, except for the river reach immediately downstream of the dam. Our results improve the assessment of spatial patterns of hydrologic alteration, giving more confidence in the assessment of magnitude and spatial extension of the effects of Manso dam in the Pantanal region. |
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Jardim, Pedro FredianiMelo, Maria Marcella MedeirosRibeiro, Larissa de CastroCollischonn, WalterPaz, Adriano Rolim da2020-12-24T04:21:03Z20202296-665Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/10183/216864001120055Natural river flow provides the conditions required to sustain freshwater ecosystems, and the greater the departure from the natural regime, the greater the loss of those ecosystems. In South America, new hydropower dams are continuously being constructed and planned in regions within and around the Amazon basin and in the Upper Paraguay river basin, a region notable for the Pantanal, a huge wetland ecosystem that is largely dependent on the flow regime of the Paraguay river and its tributaries. In this context, it is meaningful to examine the hydrological changes caused by the major Manso dam, that is operating since 2001 at the headwaters of one of the major tributaries of the Paraguay river. This was done for the same case study by other authors in previous studies using only gauging stations data. However, those previous assessments were limited due to the confounding effects of climate variability and the necessity of relatively long term observed time series. Here, we applied a modeling approach to evaluate the changes in hydrological regime caused by Manso dam operation. Our modeling approach was based on the combination of the MGB large-scale hydrologic model with the SIRIPLAN large-scale wetland model. The models were applied, using river reaches from 2 to 10 km, in two scenarios during the period from 2003 to 2015. In the first scenario we used naturalized streamflow at the dam site as input to the hydrological model. In the second scenario we used observed reservoir outflow time series as input to the hydrological model. Our results show that Manso dam has a regulation effect that decreases high flows, increases low flows and reduces lateral connectivity. The decrease in high flows is more pronounced in the region upstream of the Pantanal floodplain, but not limited to, while increase in low flows extends into Pantanal. Timing of maximum and minimum flows is less affected, except for the river reach immediately downstream of the dam. Our results improve the assessment of spatial patterns of hydrologic alteration, giving more confidence in the assessment of magnitude and spatial extension of the effects of Manso dam in the Pantanal region.application/pdfengFrontiers in Environmental Science. Lausanne. Vol. 8 (Oct. 2020), Article 567450, 15 p.Regime fluvialBarragem : Aspectos ambientaisModelos hidrológicosModelo MGB-IPHManso, Reservatório (MT)PantanalParaguai, Rio, BaciaManso damIndicators of hydrologic alterationHydrological modelingMGBSIRIPLANPantanalA modeling assessment of large-scale hydrologic alteration in south american Pantanal due to upstream dam operationEstrangeiroinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Institucional da UFRGSinstname:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)instacron:UFRGSTEXT001120055.pdf.txt001120055.pdf.txtExtracted Texttext/plain80707http://www.lume.ufrgs.br/bitstream/10183/216864/2/001120055.pdf.txtc13f6ba51d4f119a9f0c1bd8c66f1847MD52ORIGINAL001120055.pdfTexto completo (inglês)application/pdf3245600http://www.lume.ufrgs.br/bitstream/10183/216864/1/001120055.pdfea7253cf30746852c1cf827a81d7b198MD5110183/2168642020-12-25 05:11:58.749572oai:www.lume.ufrgs.br:10183/216864Repositório de PublicaçõesPUBhttps://lume.ufrgs.br/oai/requestopendoar:2020-12-25T07:11:58Repositório Institucional da UFRGS - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)false |
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A modeling assessment of large-scale hydrologic alteration in south american Pantanal due to upstream dam operation |
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A modeling assessment of large-scale hydrologic alteration in south american Pantanal due to upstream dam operation |
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A modeling assessment of large-scale hydrologic alteration in south american Pantanal due to upstream dam operation Jardim, Pedro Frediani Regime fluvial Barragem : Aspectos ambientais Modelos hidrológicos Modelo MGB-IPH Manso, Reservatório (MT) Pantanal Paraguai, Rio, Bacia Manso dam Indicators of hydrologic alteration Hydrological modeling MGB SIRIPLAN Pantanal |
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A modeling assessment of large-scale hydrologic alteration in south american Pantanal due to upstream dam operation |
title_full |
A modeling assessment of large-scale hydrologic alteration in south american Pantanal due to upstream dam operation |
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A modeling assessment of large-scale hydrologic alteration in south american Pantanal due to upstream dam operation |
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A modeling assessment of large-scale hydrologic alteration in south american Pantanal due to upstream dam operation |
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A modeling assessment of large-scale hydrologic alteration in south american Pantanal due to upstream dam operation |
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Jardim, Pedro Frediani |
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Jardim, Pedro Frediani Melo, Maria Marcella Medeiros Ribeiro, Larissa de Castro Collischonn, Walter Paz, Adriano Rolim da |
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Melo, Maria Marcella Medeiros Ribeiro, Larissa de Castro Collischonn, Walter Paz, Adriano Rolim da |
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Jardim, Pedro Frediani Melo, Maria Marcella Medeiros Ribeiro, Larissa de Castro Collischonn, Walter Paz, Adriano Rolim da |
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Regime fluvial Barragem : Aspectos ambientais Modelos hidrológicos Modelo MGB-IPH Manso, Reservatório (MT) Pantanal Paraguai, Rio, Bacia |
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Regime fluvial Barragem : Aspectos ambientais Modelos hidrológicos Modelo MGB-IPH Manso, Reservatório (MT) Pantanal Paraguai, Rio, Bacia Manso dam Indicators of hydrologic alteration Hydrological modeling MGB SIRIPLAN Pantanal |
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Manso dam Indicators of hydrologic alteration Hydrological modeling MGB SIRIPLAN Pantanal |
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Natural river flow provides the conditions required to sustain freshwater ecosystems, and the greater the departure from the natural regime, the greater the loss of those ecosystems. In South America, new hydropower dams are continuously being constructed and planned in regions within and around the Amazon basin and in the Upper Paraguay river basin, a region notable for the Pantanal, a huge wetland ecosystem that is largely dependent on the flow regime of the Paraguay river and its tributaries. In this context, it is meaningful to examine the hydrological changes caused by the major Manso dam, that is operating since 2001 at the headwaters of one of the major tributaries of the Paraguay river. This was done for the same case study by other authors in previous studies using only gauging stations data. However, those previous assessments were limited due to the confounding effects of climate variability and the necessity of relatively long term observed time series. Here, we applied a modeling approach to evaluate the changes in hydrological regime caused by Manso dam operation. Our modeling approach was based on the combination of the MGB large-scale hydrologic model with the SIRIPLAN large-scale wetland model. The models were applied, using river reaches from 2 to 10 km, in two scenarios during the period from 2003 to 2015. In the first scenario we used naturalized streamflow at the dam site as input to the hydrological model. In the second scenario we used observed reservoir outflow time series as input to the hydrological model. Our results show that Manso dam has a regulation effect that decreases high flows, increases low flows and reduces lateral connectivity. The decrease in high flows is more pronounced in the region upstream of the Pantanal floodplain, but not limited to, while increase in low flows extends into Pantanal. Timing of maximum and minimum flows is less affected, except for the river reach immediately downstream of the dam. Our results improve the assessment of spatial patterns of hydrologic alteration, giving more confidence in the assessment of magnitude and spatial extension of the effects of Manso dam in the Pantanal region. |
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