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Calibration and uncertainty analysis of the SWAT model using Genetic Algorithms and Bayesian Model Averaging
Authors:Xuesong Zhang  Raghavan Srinivasan  David Bosch
Institution:aJoint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, MD 20740, USA;bSpatial Sciences Laboratory, Department of Ecosystem Sciences and Management, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA;cSoutheast Watershed Research Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, Tifton, GA 31793, USA
Abstract:In this paper, the Genetic Algorithms (GA) and Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) were used to simultaneously conduct calibration and uncertainty analysis for the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT). In this combined method, several SWAT models with different structures are first selected; next GA is used to calibrate each model using observed streamflow data; finally, BMA is applied to combine the ensemble predictions and provide uncertainty interval estimation. This method was tested in two contrasting basins, the Little River Experimental Basin in Georgia, USA, and the Yellow River Headwater Basin in China. The results obtained in the two case studies show that this combined method can provide deterministic predictions better than or comparable to the best calibrated model using GA. The 66.7% and 90% uncertainty intervals estimated by this method were analyzed. The differences between the percentage of coverage of observations and the corresponding expected coverage percentage are within 10% for both calibration and validation periods in these two test basins. This combined methodology provides a practical and flexible tool to attain reliable deterministic simulation and uncertainty analysis of SWAT.
Keywords:Optimization  Modeling  Basin  Uncertainty  SWAT
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