First national scale groundwater model in Great Britain released

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Hydrological parameterisation (left) and simulated groundwater heads (right). BGS © UKRI.

First national-scale groundwater model in Great Britain released

BGS has released the British Groundwater Model (BGWM): the first integrated groundwater model covering Britain to simulate transient groundwater dynamics and surface water/groundwater interactions at the national scale.

The model provides a tool for a general assessment of groundwater resources in British aquifers and for improving current representations of groundwater flow in existing UK-focused land surface and water quality models.
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