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Wind Shielding Impacts on Water Quality in an Urban Reservoir

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This study applied an atmospheric Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) model and a three-dimensional hydrodynamic-ecological lake model to investigate the impacts of variable wind forcing on lake hydrodynamics and water quality. The CFD model was used to predict the wind field over the lake surface which served as the meteorological forcing for the lake model. The study was carried out for the Marina Reservoir in downtown Singapore where field measurements of the wind field showed that temporal and spatial differences in wind field were found to be significant. By comparing simulations using uniform and spatially variable wind inputs in terms of thermal stratification, Richardson number, vorticity, and spatial gradients, this study demonstrates that the variability in wind forcing in urban lakes that arise from shielding and seasonal effects can have significant impacts on the hydrodynamics and water quality in the reservoir.

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported by the Singapore National Research Foundation under its Environment & Water Technologies Strategic Research Programme and administered by the Environment & Water Industry Programme Office (EWI) and Public Utilities Board (PUB) of Singapore, under project 1002-IRIS-09.

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  1. Lloyd H. C. Chua

    Present address: School of Engineering, Faculty of Science Engineering & Built Environment, Deakin University, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, VIC, 3220, Australia

  2. Haiyan Miao

    Present address: School of Engineering, IT and Environment, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, NT 0810, Australia

  3. Jörg Imberger

    Present address: Department of Ocean Sciences, Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA

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  1. School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798, Singapore

    Zikun Xing & Lloyd H. C. Chua

  2. DHI-NTU Centre, Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute (NEWRI), Singapore, Singapore

    Lloyd H. C. Chua & Peipei Yang

  3. Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore, 108632, Singapore

    Haiyan Miao

  4. Centre for Water Research, University of Western Australia M023, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia, 6009, Australia

    Jörg Imberger

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• Presence of tall buildings can significantly alter the wind field over the surface of urban lakes

• We utilise an atmospheric CFD model to predict the wind field over an urban lake

• A 3-D hydrodynamics and water quality model was used to study lake impacts

• Wind forcing was found to dominate the vertical and spatial mixing processes, more than other meteorological forcings

• Quantification of the thermal stratification, Richardson number, vorticity, and spatial gradients, show that wind shielding effects are significant

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Xing, Z., Chua, L.H.C., Miao, H. et al. Wind Shielding Impacts on Water Quality in an Urban Reservoir. Water Resour Manage 32, 3549–3561 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-018-1980-y

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