Application of SWAT2005 model in hydrological modeling in a red soil Basin of China

Author

Sun, Shanlei ; Chen, Haishan ; Ju, Weimin ; Song, Jie

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Meteorol. Disaster of Minist. of Educ., Nanjing Univ. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Nanjing, China

fYear

2011

fDate

24-26 June 2011

Firstpage

111

Lastpage

114

Abstract

Modeling of hydrological components (especially streamflow) is the basis of water resources management and utilization. This study intended to validate the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model in Fu River Basin of a typical red soil area of China. The datasets of SWAT for simulation were established using ArcGIS 9.2. Based on the sensitivity analysis, 22 parameters were selected for atuocalibration. Among the parameters, Alpha_Bf was found to be the most important one. Then, the optimum parameters were given using daily observed streamflow during 1960-1970. Lastly, the daily streamflow simulation was performanced from 1971-2000 with the optimum parameters, and the results of validation showed that the simulated values were reasonable compared to the observed data with Ens being 0.76, 0.96 and 0.97 on daily, monthly and yearly respectively, suggesting that the validity of SWAT model in Fu River Basin of red soil area, China.

Keywords

calibration; geographic information systems; hydrology; rivers; sensitivity analysis; soil; water conservation; water resources; Alpha_Bf parameter; ArcGIS 9.2; China; Fu River Basin; SWAT2005 Model; Soil and Water Assessment Tool model; atuocalibration; daily streamflow simulation; hydrological components; hydrological modeling; red soil area; sensitivity analysis; water resource management; water resource utilization; Biological system modeling; Calibration; Meteorology; Rivers; Sensitivity analysis; Soil; Water resources; Fu River; SWAT2005; calibration and validation; red soil area; streamflow;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Remote Sensing, Environment and Transportation Engineering (RSETE), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9172-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RSETE.2011.5964229

Filename

5964229