Simulation of Daily Stream Flows in Semi-Arid Mountainous Watersheds using Hydrological Simulation FORTRAN Program (HSPF)

Dastorani, Ja&#039;afar; Mahdavi, Mohammad; Salajegheh, Ali; Fakheri Fard, Ahmad

doi:10.22059/jrwm.2017.61968

Document Type : Research Paper

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https://doi.org/10.22059/jrwm.2017.61968

Abstract

Hydrological Simulation FORTRAN Program (HSPF) has long been used in modeling watersheds and many studies have been carried out around the world in this regard. Hablerood watershed is located in Semnan province with an area of 3200 km2 which suppies the required water, especially for farming, in Garmsar plain. Previous studies on daily step and related to hydrology and water resources in this watershed were limited to computation of statistics summaries of daily stream flows. Therefore, simulation of daily stream flows is very important. In this research, the parameters of HSPF model were estimated and the results of model in current conditions with minimum data availability are discussed. In general, it was found out that since the model performance using WinHSPF has high errors in metric system, English system must be used in stead. Also, due to the model’s need to hourly time series data, more detailed information about Hydrological components, and other terrestrial data as well as due to low accuracy of these data and model’s objection in some cases such as using the mean of infiltration parameter for a given land use segment and the lack of certain criteria in watershed delineation, high errors occurred in daily stream flow simulation with the Nash-Sutcliffe model efficiency coefficient of 0.77 and 0.18 as well as 0.468 and 0.49 for R2 in calibration and validation period, respectively. Also, simulated flows in late spring are higher than observed value, while in late summer through fall are lower than observed value. Finally, at the end of the paper we discuss the solution to obtain better results.

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Journal of Range and Watershed Managment

Simulation of Daily Stream Flows in Semi-Arid Mountainous Watersheds using Hydrological Simulation FORTRAN Program (HSPF)

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Volume 70, Issue 1
June 2017
Pages 87-100

Simulation of Daily Stream Flows in Semi-Arid Mountainous Watersheds using Hydrological Simulation FORTRAN Program (HSPF)

References

References

Volume 70, Issue 1June 2017Pages 87-100

Volume 70, Issue 1
June 2017
Pages 87-100