Technical Workshop

MODFLOW One Water Hydrologic Flow Model Workshop
(in cooperation with the United States Geological Survey California Water Science Center)

Tuesday December 5 through Friday December 8, 2017 (4-days) 9:00 to 4:30pm
Wildlife Fire Training & Conference Center
3237 Peacekeeper Way, Room N117
McClellan, CA 95652

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Workshop Fee: $300 for CWEMF members, $400 for non-members, and $100 for students Pre-registration is requested. Refreshments included for all days, lunch not included.
Please email cwemf@cwemf.org to reserve your seat.

The four-day workshop will cover the features and use of the USGS’s One-Water Hydrologic Flow Model (MF-OWHM) for analysis of conjunctive use and sustainability of water resources. The workshop will cover current conjunctive use and sustainability applications, how to use the new features of MF-OWHM, and selected support analysis tools. A simple set of problems will be used to demonstrate the utility of the supply-and-demand framework that is used to perform resource analysis. The workshop will introduce the new features of the MF- OWHM version 2 release that will be available in November, 2017.

MF-OWHM allows the simulation, analysis, and management of human and natural water movement within a physically-based supply-and-demand framework. A unique feature of MF-OWHM is that it allows the simulation of head-dependent flows, flow-dependent flows, and deformation-dependent flows that collectively affect conjunctive use and sustainability of water resources. This framework includes groundwater, surface-water, and landscape budgets within water-accounting regions that include climate, land usage, water deliveries, water transfers, and estimation of unknown ground water pumping, recharge, runoff, and surface-water deliveries. This also includes surface-water and groundwater allocations as resource limits needed for sustainability analysis. The supply-constrained and demand-driven framework combined with the linkages among packages and processes provides complete relations of water use and movement, and helps you keep all water within the model, thus accounting for “all of the water everywhere and all of the time.” While MF-OWHM has many options, it can be used simply and can be used to assess either data rich or data poor basins.

MF-OWHM is based on the MODFLOW-2005 (MF) with the Farm Process (FMP4), and is the latest, fastest, and most complete version of MODLFOW available from the USGS that incorporates all the other features available in the separate versions of the MODFLOW suite (NWT, SWR, SWI, LGR) into one integrated hydrologic flow model. It also includes many original code improvements to MF-2005, as well as many new features that make building, calibrating, and maintaining models easier. MF-OWHM extends the capabilities of Local Grid Refinement (LGR) for embedded models to use the Farm Process and Streamflow Routing within embedded grids. MF-OWHM also now includes new linkages as well as new features such as the Surface-Water Routing Process (SWR), Surface-water Operations (SWO), Multi-Node Wells (MNW2), Conduit Flow Process (CFP2), and Riparian Evapotranspiration (RIP-ET). MF-OWHM not only contains all the previously available solvers but also new solvers such as Newton-Raphson (NWT) and the nonlinear preconditioned conjugate gradient (PCGN). The workshop will introduce a new way to analyze conjunctive use and sustainability of water resources in a holistic and complete context of the entire simulated hydrosphere with some emphasis on SGMA analysis of hydrologic budgets and secondary effects that affect sustainability

Course Instructors:
Randall T. Hanson, USGS, Research Hydrologist
Scott Boyce, USGS, Hydrologist Jonathan Traum, USGS, Hydrologist Wesley Henson, USGS, Hydrologist

Computer Requirements:
Attendees will use their own laptops pre-loaded with MF-OWHM software and example problems. Links to download the software will be provided prior to the workshop.