Approach Using Active Groundwater Storage for Hydrologic Model Calibration in West-Central Florida
Publication: Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 136, Issue 1
Abstract
Hydrologic model calibration is always a challenging and tedious process especially for the calibration of complex models, which includes continuous hydrograph models, requires sophisticated calibration methods. The Hydrologic Simulation Program-FORTRAN (HSPF) is one of the popular and powerful time variable hydrologic models. However, in order to improve the assessment of hydrologic activities in shallow ground water settings, the model needs to be reliably calibrated for ground water contribution. Little guidance is provided in the literature concerning the manner of this contribution. In fact, the most common calibration of HSPF uses subjective parameter fitting and focuses on the attainment of statistical goodness of fit of runoff fluxes and water levels, ignoring ground water components. The goal of this research is using a different approach to calibrate HSPF with observed water table records. In this study, HSPF is applied on a small area in west-central Florida and calibrated by comparing active ground water storage to well elevation records in range land and forested land covers. The Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency and correlation coefficient computed using observed and simulated daily flows are 0.91 and 0.96 at Peace River, respectively, also with good fair results for other stations in the model domain. The study shows that improved calibration of the model can be achieved if active ground water storage and well records are compared for timing and magnitude of fluctuations.
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Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 136 • Issue 1 • January 2010
Pages: 58 - 62
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Received: Nov 17, 2008
Accepted: Jun 8, 2009
Published online: Dec 15, 2009
Published in print: Jan 2010
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