First Results Provided by Regional Hydrogeological Model of Latvia
The 17th International Scientific Conference “EcoBalt 2012”: Book of Abstracts 2012
Aivars Spalviņš, Jānis Šlangens, Oļģerts Aleksāns, Kaspars Krauklis, Inta Lāce

The countries of the world and of the European Union are developing hydrogeological models (HM) where, by means of computer modeling, the information necessary for the groundwater management is obtained. In 2010, Riga Technical University has started the project of HM that includes the whole territory of Latvia and border areas of neighbouring countries. The project is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund. HM accounts for 25 geological layers and its plane approximation step is 500 meters. HM will be applied, as the element of the Latvian shared Environmental Information System. It is supported by the Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre. HM will comprise geological and hydrogeological information provided by the centre. To ensure compability with models of other countries, the commercial program Groundwater Vistas is used for running HM. HM must be completed till November, 2012 and, presently, HM is being used in regime of its calibration. The following first results are provided by HM: surfaces of geological layers for the active groundwater zone of Latvia (till the Pernava aquifer); they include also the digital relief map of Latvia with the hydrographical network included; distributions of heads for all aquifers included in HM; distributions of groundwater flows between aquifers (the infiltration flow is also obtained); the full spatial groundwater flow balance is also estimated. HM is a powerful tool not only for modelling groundwater resources of Latvia, but it also enables to join into unified system also surface water sources (meteoric water, lakes, rivers, sea). Creation of HM is only the first step of its future development as the tool for managing water resources of Latvia. HM also will serve as the base for transboundary projects with neighbouring countries.


Atslēgas vārdi
regional hydrogeological models, computer based modelling

Spalviņš, A., Šlangens, J., Aleksāns, O., Krauklis, K., Lāce, I. First Results Provided by Regional Hydrogeological Model of Latvia. No: The 17th International Scientific Conference “EcoBalt 2012”: Book of Abstracts, Latvija, Riga, 18.-19. oktobris, 2012. Riga: University of Latvia Press, 2012, 77.-77.lpp. ISBN 978-9984-45-575-4. ISSN 1691-4112.

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