Daily Stream Flow Simulation in a Data-Poor Basin

Subject Areas : environmental management

Mohammad Reza Khazaei ¹ , Bagher Zahabiyoun ² , Bahram Saghafian ³

1 - Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Payame Noor University, I.R of IRAN
2 - Faculty of Civil Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Professor, Faculty of Technical and Engineering, Tehran Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2009-08-03 Accepted : 2009-12-16 Published : 2015-03-21

Keywords: continuous model, rainfall–runoff, daily flow, ARNO, potential Evaporation- Transpi,

Abstract :

Introduction: Rainfall-runoff modeling is one of the keystones of scientific hydrology andenvironmental management. Therefore the researchers continuously try to find new approaches forimprovement of existing models or modeling methodologies.Material and Methods: In this paper, daily stream flow at the outlet of a watershed in southwesternIran was simulated using a conceptual continuous rainfall-runoff model. In encountering with theproblem of poor quality data, required data such as runoff, rainfall and PET were prepared using aspecific approach.Results and Discussion: The results showed that the Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency was 0.80 and thecoefficient of determination was 0.82 during calibration and the Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency was 0.83and the coefficient of determination was 0.83 during validation. Furthermore statistics of observedstream flow were preserved in simulated stream flow. The results showed that this approach issuccessfully applicable for daily rainfall-runoff modeling when the quality of the input data is notadequate

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