期刊
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY
卷 536, 期 -, 页码 534-545出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.03.001
关键词
Ecohydrological modelling; Multi-metric and multi-variable calibration; Water quality; Flow and nitrate duration curve; Signature measures
资金
- German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
- DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) [GU 1466/1-1]
- German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU)
Hydrological models are useful tools to investigate hydrology and water quality in catchments. The calibration of these models is a crucial step to adapt the model to the catchment conditions, allowing effective simulations of environmental processes. In the model calibration, different performance measures need to be considered to represent different hydrology and water quality conditions in combination. This study presents a joined multi-metric calibration of discharge and nitrate loads simulated with the ecohydrological model SWAT. For this purpose, a calibration approach based on flow duration curves (FDC) is advanced by also considering nitrate duration curves (NDC). Five segments of FDCs and of NDC5 are evaluated separately to consider the different phases of hydrograph and nitrograph. To consider both magnitude and dynamics in river discharge and nitrate loads, the Kling-Gupta Efficiency (KGE) is used additionally as a statistical performance metric to achieve a joined multi-variable calibration. The results show that a separate assessment of five different magnitudes improves the calibrated nitrate loads. Subsequently, adequate model runs with good performance for different hydrological conditions both for discharge and nitrate are detected in a joined approach based on FDC, NDC, and KGE. In that manner, plausible results were obtained for discharge and nitrate loads in the same model run. Using a multi-metric performance approach, the simultaneous multi-variable calibration led to a balanced model result for all magnitudes of discharge and nitrate loads. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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