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ENGENHARIA AGRICOLA
Volume 34, Issue 4, Pages 789-799Publisher
SOC BRASIL ENGENHARIA AGRICOLA
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-69162014000400018
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hydrological modeling; SWAT; calibration; validation
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Hydrological models are important tools that have been used in water resource planning and management. Thus, the aim of this work was to calibrate and validate in a daily time scale, the SWAT model (Soil and Water Assessment Tool) to the watershed of the Galo creek, located in Espirito Santo State. To conduct the study we used georeferenced maps of relief, soil type and use, in addition to historical daily time series of basin climate and flow. In modeling were used time series corresponding to the periods Jan 1, 1995 to Dec 31, 2000 and Jan 1, 2001 to Dec 20, 2003 for calibration and validation, respectively. Model performance evaluation was done using the Nash-Sutcliffe coefficient (E-NS) and the percentage of bias (P-BIAS). SWAT evaluation was also done in the simulation of the following hydrological variables: maximum and minimum annual daily flowsand minimum reference flows, Q(90) and Q(95), based on mean absolute error. E-NS and P-BIAS were, respectively, 0.65 and 7.2% and 0.70 and 14.1%, for calibration and validation, indicating a satisfactory performance for the model. SWAT adequately simulated minimum annual daily flow and the reference flows, Q(90) and Q(95); it was not suitable in the simulation of maximum annual daily flows.
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