What is transferrable across groundwater systems in producing research-based information to support sustainable groundwater management?
What is unique to each aquifer system?
Are there lessons learned from elsewhere to bring to Pulse?
What from Pulse can be brought to benefit other regions?
Is the CPRAS system connected to a wider regional system? If so it would be interesting to understand how you have set up the boundary conditions (which may become relevant when/if we need to isolate Kaweah or other ‘basins’ in the CV).
Great seminar today! I wanted to follow up on one question you already answered about monitoring groundwater use. You mentioned that if growers are using groundwater that is regulated, it’s easy to see because there is additional irrigated land. Is that being tracked with OpenET or other satellite products?
Thanks for the question, @jmells ! The CPRAS is the larger regional system equivalent to the full Central Valley. The “subareas” I presented are more akin to the GSA domains, where some are actually delineated based on groundwater connectivity (at least theoretically) and some are based on other boundaries, mostly defined by surface watersheds. Again, similar to within the Central Valley, some of those subareas have their own specific models, usually MODFLOW-based but some ParFlow or other systems dynamics approaches. They haven’t been integrated into a nested scale approach though.
@smithrg No, not to my knowledge, at least not explicitly for regulatory compliance. I think there’s been talk of different ET products by Ecology, but I need to look more into what they’re doing. What were your other questions?!
