A simplified modelling framework for real-time assessment of conservative pollutants in ungauged rivers during cloudy periods

JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

卷:293

Article

Swain, Ratnakar¹  Sahoo, Bhabagrahi² 

[1] Natl Inst Technol, Dept Civil Engn, Rourkela, Odisha, India

[2] Indian Inst Technol Kharagpur, Sch Water Resources, Kharagpur 721302, W Bengal, India

关键词: Brahmani River;    Heavy metal;    Pollutant transport;    Streamflow;    Remote sensing;    VPMM-AD;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112821

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Recently, the optical remote sensing technique is effectively applied to monitor real-time water quality parameters at finer spatiotemporal scales that are mostly based on the surface reflectance of satellite images. However, during the rainy season due to cloudy or hazy satellite images, it is a great challenge to obtain the surface reflectances and to estimate the pollutant concentration. This study is specially focused on developing a novel approach to estimate the daily-scale pollutant concentrations in ungauged rivers during cloudy days. The developed approach integrates the simplified physically-based VPMM-AD(psi Dc) solute transport model with the remote sensing (RS)-based approach for assessing the non-reactive river pollutants in real-time. This integrated VPMM-AD(psi Dc)-RS approach is tested for simulating the in-situ heavy metal (Fe, Zn, Cu, Cr, Pb, and Cd) and total suspended solid (TSS) concentrations in the Brahmani River during the tropical monsoon (rainy) seasons of the typical years 2010-2013. The study results reveal that the proposed integrated approach performed reasonably well with acceptable accuracy for real-time estimation of pollutant concentrations in the considered ungauged river reach during the cloudy period.

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