Mipwa Water managers develop their own high-resolution groundwater model tools
conference paper
The interests of the various parties involved in water management often conflict. The project "Development of a Methodology for Interactive Planning for WAter management" (MIPWA) is intended to resolve these conflicts. For the first time in The Netherlands, 17 water management stakeholders joined forces to develop a large-scale high-resolution decision-making tool for groundwater-related issues. It consists of a groundwater model database, an impulse-response database and the user-friendly interactive modelling tool iMOD. Each conceptual choice was made by the whole group of stakeholders themselves, based on the choices provided to this group by model experts of various research institutes and consultancies. This has strengthened the cooperation between the participating organisations enormously, and created a level playing field for environmental planning processes. Both technical and interactive consensus-building challenges had to be tackled in the MIPWA project. Numerous innovations have proven to be effective: grid-computing, up-scaling, large data storage, accessibility via the internet and interactive decision-making processes. Copyright © 2008 IAHS Press.
Topics
Decision-supportGraphical user interfaceGrid computingGroundwater modellingHigh resolutionScaling techniquesCalibrationComputer systemsDatabase systemsDecision support systemsGraphical user interfacesGrid computingGroundwaterPlanningProblem solvingReliabilitySocieties and institutionsUnderground reservoirsWater managementDecision-supportEnvironmental planningGroundwater modelsHigh resolutionHigh resolutionsInteractive planningLarge datumsLevel playing fieldsMaking processesModelling toolsNetherlandsResearch institutesScaling techniquesWater managersHydrogeologycalibrationconference proceedingdecision support systemgroundwaterhydrological modelingreliability analysiswater managementwater planningBeneluxEurasiaEuropeNetherlandsWestern Europe
TNO Identifier
953989
ISSN
01447815
ISBN
9781901502
Source title
IAHS-AISH Publication, International Conference on Calibration and Reliability in Groundwater Modelling: Credibility of Modelling, ModelCARE2007, 9 September 2007 through 13 September 2007
Pages
108-113
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