Assessing SWAT models based on single and multi-site calibration for the simulation of flow and nutrient loads in the semi-arid Onkaparinga catchment in South Australia

Manoj Kumar Shrestha, Friedrich Recknagel, Jacqueline Frizenschaf and Wayne Meyer

Agricultural Water Management, 2016, vol. 175, issue C, 61-71

Abstract: Distributed catchment models such as SWAT (Soil and Water Assessment Tool) are widely used to assess catchment characteristics and facilitate informed decisions for safeguarding water quantity and quality. This study applied SWAT to simulate monthly stream flow and loadings of total suspended sediment (TSS), total nitrogen (TN) and total phosphorus (TP) for five monitoring stations within the Onkaparinga catchment, and tested the models’ performance based on single-site or multi-site calibration.

Keywords: SWAT; Single-site calibration; Multi-site calibration; Nutrient loads; Semi-arid; Onkaparinga catchment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2016.02.009

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