Modelling Hydraulic Parameters of Flood Flows for a Polish Carpathian River Subjected to Variable Human Impacts
Channelization and channel incision have considerably modified channel morphology of the Czarny Dunajec River, and now it varies from a single-thread, incised or regulated channel to an unmanaged, multi-thread channel. Effects of these distinct channel mo
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stract Channelization and channel incision have considerably modified channel morphology of the Czarny Dunajec River, and now it varies from a single-thread, incised or regulated channel to an unmanaged, multi-thread channel. Effects of these distinct channel morphologies on the conditions for flood flows were investigated in a study of 25 cross-sections from the middle river course. Cross-sectional morphology, channel slope and roughness were used as input data for the 1D steady-flow hydraulic modelling performed for discharges with recurrence interval between 1.5 and 50 years. Adjustment of roughness coefficients to obtain the agreement between simulated and observed peak levels of the 2014 flood allowed calibration of the model for particular cross-sections. As a result of differences in flow widths, cross-sectional flow areas and channel slope, flood flows in the three river reaches differ in unit stream power and bed shear stress, with the highest values of the parameters recorded in the incised reach, intermediate values in the A. Radecki-Pawlik (&) W. Czech Department of Hydraulics Engineering and Geotechnique, University of Agriculture, al. Mickiewicza 24/28, 30-059 Kraków, Poland e-mail: [email protected] W. Czech e-mail: [email protected] B. Wyżga P. Mikuś Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, al. Mickiewicza 33, 31-120 Kraków, Poland e-mail: [email protected] P. Mikuś e-mail: [email protected] J. Zawiejska Institute of Geography, Pedagogical University of Cracow, ul. Podchorążych 2, 30-084 Kraków, Poland e-mail: [email protected] V. Ruiz-Villanueva Dendrolab.ch, Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse 1+3, 3012 Bern, Switzerland e-mail: [email protected] © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 Z.W. Kundzewicz et al. (eds.), Flood Risk in the Upper Vistula Basin, GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-41923-7_7
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channelized reach and the lowest values in the multi-thread reach. The recognised differences in the flow power and in tractive forces exerted on the flow boundary underlie and explain different evolutionary tendencies of particular river reaches during the past decades. Stabilization of river banks in channelized reaches induces a progressive increase in floodplain elevation; sedimentation in the analysed channelized cross-section of the Czarny Dunajec have reduced its initial flow conveyance by half and elevated water stages at given flood discharges by about 0.7 m during 30 years since the river channelization.
Keywords Hydraulic modelling River channelization Channel incision Roughness calibration Overbank deposition Flow conveyance
1 Introduction In the 20th century and especially in its second half, the morphology of Polish Carpathian rivers was considerably modified as a result of diverse human impacts. The rivers were channelized along most of their courses, with the change resulting in the replacement of wide and shallow, sinu
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