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Abstract:
The basic component in SHM is a lumped element hydrologic model. With essential enhancements and updates, the SHM is able to stochastically generate a lake complex with defined lake shapes, account for key hydrologic processes contributing to stage and mass loading, and provide plot power laws for the complex for any time or climatic condition. Preliminary simulation results for a lake complex along Missouri Coteau in North Dakota reveals continuous long-term power laws describing the frequency of occurrence of lakes of a given size. The power laws change seasonally and inter-annually as well as a function of climate. Meanwhile, the lower limit of power-law validity has also been examined. Eventually, the linear power law fails when small depressions effectively dry out, especially during hot, dry summer months.
See more from this Division: Joint Sessions
See more from this Session: Agriculture, Aquifers, and Climate Change