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Hydrological modelling of Ethiopian catchments using limited data

✍ Scribed by Muluneh A. Mekonnen; Anders Wörman; Bijan Dargahi; Admasu Gebeyehu

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
417 KB
Volume
23
Category
Article
ISSN
0885-6087

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The hydrological component of the soil and water assessment tool (SWAT) model is adapted for two Ethiopian catchments based on primary knowledge of the coherence spectrum between rainfall and stream flow data. Spectrum analysis using the available nearby climatic data is made to limit the temporal and spatial scales (inverse rate coefficients) subject to the calibration of compartmentalized runoff models. The exclusion of unwarranted time scales in the calibration implies that the model efficiency (r^2^ values) decrease only moderately between calibration and validation, and the optimization is focused on warranted problems. On the basis of the available data for the two Ethiopian catchments, the implication is that only periods longer than about 50 days can be reliably evaluated in the model. The model structure of SWAT for the surface runoff and groundwater flow response is modified to make the time scales consistent with the results of the spectrum analysis. An optimization algorithm is developed to constrain and combine the model parameters with the spectrum analysis results. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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