Determination of Environmental Flows for theBarbuda Stream in the Municipality of Olaya,Antioquia, Colombia

Environmental flow determination is important for the management of rivers and reservoirs. This parameter allows us to calculate the water supply of basins and minimize environmental impacts associated with water harvesting. In the past, research has been performed to determine environmental flows in rivers of Antioquia. However, the results did not include annual weather variation.Mean environmental flows, evapotranspiration and infiltration in the area have been calculated with the rainfall data registered in the Olaya station during 20 years and the basin morphometric parameters. The collected data were used to build a mathematical model in MATLAB and determine the environmental flows with the Range of Variability Approach (RVA) method for each month of the year and ENSO periods.The model can be used to determine environmental flows in similar basins using new rainfall data and morphometric parameters.

• Autores: García Montoya, Juan Pablo; Vanwalleghem, Tom; Giráldez Cervecera, Juan Vicente; Morató Farreras, Jordi; Montoya Restrepo, Jorge Ignacio
• Tipo de recurso: Article of investigation
• Fecha de publicación: 2019
• Institución: Tecnológico de Antioquia
• Repositorio: Repositorio Tdea
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:dspace.tdea.edu.co:tdea/2827
• Acceso en línea: https://dspace.tdea.edu.co/handle/tdea/2827
• Palabra clave: Caudal; Drought; Seca; Sequía; Evapotranspiration; Evapotranspiração; Evapotranspiración; Runoff; Escoamento; Escorrentía; Watersheds; Bacia hidrográfica; Cuencas hidrográficas; Cuencas; Basins; Escurrimiento; Liquid Flow; Flow; Flujo
• Rights: openAccess
• License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/