Presentation by Wil van der Krogt (Deltares) at the River Basin Planning and Modelling symposium, during Delft Software Days - Edition 2017. Wednesday, 25 October 2017, Delft.

1. Oct 2017
River Basin Simulation Model RIBASIM
Developments
Wil N.M. van der Krogt
Deltares
the Netherlands
October 2017

2. RIBASIM Ongoing developments
• Global RIBASIM: apply RIBASIM on global / continental scale
using free available public domain data sets (PCRGlob)
• GIS based automatic generation of RIBASIM network
schematization
• Link with RTC-Tools: use for the derivation of RIBASIM reservoir
operation rules “firm storage” and “target storage” curve
• Link with distributed rainfall-runoff model WFlow
• Link with water quality process and waste load model
DELWAQ/WLM
• Link with groundwater flow model iMOD, SEAWAT
• Reservoir sedimentation model RibSERES
• Open online courses (MOOCs) in the use of RIBASIM together
with IHE Delft
• Use of RIBASIM in determination of filling strategies for new
reservoirs
• Future User Interface based on Delta Shell framework
Oct 2017

3. Global RIBASIM

4. WS Toba Asahan,
Sumatra, Indonesia
Generation of
network
schematization

5. Water balance model using RIBASIM - WFlow
Afghanistan sub-basin
schematization
Afghanistan node – link
network schematization in
RIBASIM

6. 23 november 2017
exchange time step
1-5 years
(1) infiltration fluxes & salinity (2) salt concentration in surface water network
SEAWAT RIBASIM & DELWAQ
(1) exfiltration fluxes & salinity (2) salt flux to surface water network (3) salinity of extracted GW

7. Oct 2017
RIBASIM Ongoing developments

8. Latest developments in RIBASIM7
• Generation of RIBASIM schematization based on map layers
• Link with Agriculture Sector model (ASME)
• Link with Spatial Planning model (JSM)
• Link with water quality process model (DELWAQ/WLM)
• Link with reservoir sedimentation model
• Link with distributed rainfall-runoff model (WFlow)
• Link with groundwater flow model (MODFLOW)
• Link with data available from internet: Google Earth, FAO, dams db, etc
• Spatial and temporal specification of climate change
• Global RIBASIM: test for use with huge basin networks
• Analyse reservoir filling and failure strategies using RIBASIM
• Use of synthetic time series of 5000 – 50000 years for evaluation of reservoir
operation in a multi reservoir system
• RIBASIM option to reset flexibly the initial conditions and associated post-
processing
• Off-line improved link between SEAWAT (groundwater flow and salinity),
RIBASIM and DELWAQ (detailed water quality)
• Extended reservoir operation functionality: time and spatial conditional
operation rules