Water Quality Simulation Specification  

In the WQ Simulation Specification dialogue, you can select which compo­nents of the hydrologic cycle will be included in the water quality simulation. The advection dispersion method calculates solute movements based on the intercell flows calculated in a water movement simulation. Therefore, only those components that are included in the water movement solution can be selected.

Solute transport in surface water bodies is specified in and calculated by MIKE Hydro River. If solute exchange to MIKE Hydro River is to be simulated, then the water quality must also be simulated in overland flow.

In the unsaturated zone, water quality cannot be calculated in the 2-layer water balance method.

If selected, plant uptake by roots is treated as a solute sink in the unsaturated zone.

Include Water Quality Processes - Sorption and first-order decay of solutes can be calculated by the water quality module. Turning on this option will allow you to specify decay in overland flow, and both sorption and decay in the UZ (Gravity and Richards methods) and SZ (Finite Difference method) modules.

Sorption and Decay -

MIKE ECO Lab - MIKE ECO Lab options (see Working with MIKE ECO Lab in MIKE SHE - User Guide (V1 p. 711))

Related Items:

·         Working with Solute Transport - User Guide (V1 p. 701)

·         Advection Dispersion - Reference (V1 p. 659)

·         Reactive Transport - Reference (V1 p. 685)