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- Title
Assessment of Optional Sediment Transport Functions via the Complex Watershed Simulation Model SWAT.
- Authors
Haw Yen; Shenglan Lu; Qingyu Feng; RuoyuWang; Jungang Gao; Brady, Dawn Michelle; Amirreza Sharifi; Jungkyu Ahn; Shien-Tsung Chen; Jaehak Jeong; White, Michael James; Arnold, Jeffrey George
- Abstract
The Soil andWater Assessment Tool 2012 (SWAT2012) offers four sediment routing methods as optional alternatives to the default simplified Bagnold method. Previous studies compared only one of these alternative sediment routing methods with the default method. The proposed study evaluated the impacts of all four alternative sediment transport methods on sediment predictions: the modified Bagnold equation, the Kodoatie equation, the Molinas and Wu equation, and the Yang equation. The Arroyo Colorado Watershed, Texas, USA, was first calibrated for daily flow. The sediment parameters were then calibrated to monthly sediment loads, using each of the four sediment routing equations. An automatic calibration tool--Integrated Parameter Estimation and Uncertainty Analysis Tool (IPEAT)--was used to fit model parameters. The four sediment routing equations yielded substantially different sediment sources and sinks. The Yang equation performed best, followed by Kodoatie, Bagnold, and Molinas and Wu equations, according to greater model goodness-of-fit (represented by higher Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency coefficient and percent bias closer to 0) as well as lower model uncertainty (represented by inclusion of observed data within 95% confidence interval). Since the default method (Bagnold) does not guarantee the best results, modelers should carefully evaluate the selection of alternative methods before conducting relevant studies or engineering projects.
- Subjects
TEXAS; SEDIMENT transport; WATERSHED management; WATERSHED ecology; WATERSHEDS; SIMULATION methods &; models
- Publication
Water (20734441), 2017, Vol 9, Issue 2, p76
- ISSN
2073-4441
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/w9020076