Influence of the catchment discretization on the optimization of runoff-erosion modelling

Journal of Urban and Environmental Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 91-102

  Santos, Celso A G ^a   Freire, Paula K M M ^a   Da Silva, Richarde M ^a   Arruda, Petley M ^a   Mishra, Sudhanshu K ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

^b NORTH EASTERN HILL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Discretization; Optimization; Runoff erosion modeling; Semiarid area

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855484492     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19823932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4090/juee.2011.v5n2.091102     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Bingner, R.L., Garbrecht, J., Arnold, J.G. & Srinivasan, R. (1997) Effect of watershed subdivision on simulation runoff and fine sediment yield. Trans. ASAE 40(5), 1329-1335.
2. Cadier, E., Freitas, B.J. & Leprun, J.C. (1983) Bacia Experimental de Sumé: instalações e primeiros resultados. SUDENE, Recife, PE, Brazil.
3. Croley II, T.E. (1982) Unsteady overland sedimentation. J. Hydrol. 56(4), 325-346. doi: 10.1016/0022-1694(82)90021-X
4. Davis, S.S. (1978) Deposition of nonuniform sediment by overland flow on concave slopes. MSc. Thesis, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 137 p.
5. Duan, Q., Sorooshian, S. & Gupta, V. (1992) Effective and efficient global optimization for conceptual rainfall-runoff models. Water Resour. Res. 28(4), 1015-1031. doi: 10.1029/91WR02985
6. Eberhart, R.C. & Kennedy, J. (1995) A new optimizer using particle swarm theory. Proc. 60th Symposium on Micro Machine and Human Science (IEEE Service Center, Piscataway, NJ, USA), 39-43.
7. Einstein, H.A. (1968) Deposition of suspended particles in a gravel bed. J. Hydraulic Div. ASCE 94(5), 1197-1205.
8. Elshorbagy, A., Simonovic, S.P. & Panu, U.S. (2000) Performance evaluation of artificial neural networks for runoff prediction. J. Hydrol. Engng. 5(4), 424-427. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/ (ASCE)1084-0699(2000)5:4(424)
9. Foster, G.R. (1982) Modeling the erosion process. In: Haan, C.T., Johnson, H.P. & Brakensiek, D.L. (Eds.). Hydrologic modeling of small watersheds, Am. Soc. Agr. Eng., 295-380.
10. Gandolfi, C. & Bischetti, G.B. (1997) Influence of the drainage network identification method on geomorphological properties and hydrological response. Hydrol. Process. 11(4), 353-375. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1085
11. Green, W.H. & Ampt, G.A. (1911) Studies on soil physics, I. The flow of air and water through soils. J. Agr. Sci. 4(1), 1-24.
12. Helmlinger, K.R., Kumar, P. & Foufoula-Georgiou, E. (1993) On the use of digital elevation model data for Hortonian and fractal analyses of channel networks. Water Resou. Res. 29(8), 2599-2613. doi: 10.1029/93WR00545
13. Kalin, L., Govindaraju, R.S. & Hantush, M.M. (2003) Effect of geomorphologic resolution on modeling of runoff hydrograph and sedimentograph over small watersheds. J. Hydrol. 276(1), 89-111. doi: 10.1016/S0022-1694(03)00072-6
14. Laloy, E., Fasbender, D. & Bielders, C.L. (2010) Parameter optimization and uncertainty analysis for plot-scale continuous modeling of runoff using a formal Bayesian approach. J. Hydrol. 380(1), 82-93. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.10.025
15. Lane, L.J. & Shirley, E.D. (1985) Erosion and sediment yield equations: solutions for overland flow. Workshop on USLE Replacement, Nat. Soil Erosion Lab., West Lafayette, IN, p. 22.
16. Lopes, V.L. & Lane, L.J. (1988) Modeling sedimentation processes in small watersheds. IAHS Publ. 174, 497-508.
17. Mazion Jr., E. & Yen, B.C. (1994) Computational discretization effect on rainfall-runoff simulation. J. Water Resour. Plann. Manage. 120(5), 715-734. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733- 9496(1994)120:5
18. Mehta, A.J. (1983) Characterization tests for cohesive sediments. Proc. Conference on Frontiers in Hydraulic Engineering. ASCE/MIT, Cambridge, Mass., 79-84.
19. Morris, G.D. & Heerdegen, R.G. (1988) Automatically derived catchment boundaries and channel networks and their hydrological applications. Geomorph. 1(2), 131-141. doi: 10.1016/0169-555X(88)90011-6
20. Nash, J.E. & Sutcliffe, J.V. (1970) River flow forecasting through conceptual models, Part I-A discussion of principles. J. Hydrol. 10(3), 282-290. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0022-1694(70) 90255-6
21. Rigon, R., Rinaldo, A., Rodriguez-Iturbe, I., Bras, R.L. & Ijjasz- Vasquez, E. (1993) Optimal channel networks: a frame-work for the study of river basin morphology. Water Resou. Res. 29(6), 1635-1646. doi: 10.1029/92WR02985
22. Rinaldo, A., Rodriguez-Iturbe, I., Rigon, R., Bras, R.L., Ijjasz- Vasquez, E. & Marani, A. (1992) Minimum energy and fractal structures of drainage networks. Water Resou. Res. 28(9), 2183-2195. doi: 10.1029/92WR00801
23. Rodriguez-Iturbe, I., Ijjasz-Vasquez, E., Bras, R.L. & Tarboton, D.G. (1992) Power law distribution of mass and energy in river basins. Water Resou. Res. 28(4), 1089-1093. doi: 10.1029/91WR03033
24. Santos, C.A.G., Freire, P.K.M.M., Arruda, P.M. & Mishra, S.K. (2011a) Application of a differential evolution optimizer to the tank model. In: XIVth IWRA World Water Congress, 2011, Porto de Galinhas. Proc. 14th IWRA World Water Congress. Montpellier: International Water Resources Association, 1-6.
25. Santos, C.A.G., Freire, P.K.M.M., Mishra, S.K., Soares Júnior, A. (2011b) Application of a particle swarm optimization to the tank model. IAHS Publ. 347, 114-120.
26. Santos, C.A.G., Pinto, L.E.M., Freire, P.K.M.M. & Mishra, S.K. (2010) Application of a particle swarm optimization to a physically-based erosion model. Land Reclam. 42(1), 39-49. doi: 10.2478/v10060-008-0063-9
27. Santos, C.A.G., Srinivasan, V.S. & Silva, R.M. (2005) Evaluation of optimized parameter values of a distributed runoff-erosion model applied in two different basins. IAHS Publ. 292, 101-109.
28. Santos, C.A.G., Srinivasan, V.S., Suzuki, K. & Watanabe, M. (2003) Application of an optimization technique to a physically based erosion model. Hydrol. Process. 17(5), 989-1003. doi: 10.1002/hyp.1176
29. Simon, H.A. (1982) Models of bounded rationality. Cambridge University. Press, Cambridge, MA, USA.
30. Snell, J.D. & Sivapalan, M. (1994) On the geomorphologic dispersion in natural catchments and geomorphological unit hydrograph. Water Resou. Res. 30(7), 2311-2323. doi: 10.1029/94WR00537
31. Soares Júnior, A., Santos, C.A.G., Motta, G.H.M.B., Barbosa, F.A.R., Freire, P.K.M.M. (2010a) Application of an XML-based genetic algorithm in to a rainfall-runoff erosion model. IAHS Publ. 337, 366-374.
32. Soares Júnior, A.L., Farias, C.A.S., Santos, C.A.G. & Suzuki, K. (2010b) An XML-based genetic algorithm tool: application for the calibration of a Tank model. Proc. 17th Congress of the Asia and Pacific Division of the International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research. Auckland: IAHR, 1-10.
33. Srinivasan, V.S. & Galvão, C.O. (1995) Evaluation of runoff and erosion loss in microbasins utilizing the hydrodynamic model WESP. Adv. Engn. Softw. 22(2), 79-85. doi: 10.1016/0965- 9978(95)00014-N
34. Srinivasan, V.S. & Paiva, F.M.L. (2009) Regional validity of the parameters of a distributed runoff-erosion model in the semi-arid region of Brazil. Sci. China Series E: Technol. Sci. 52(11), 3348-3356. doi: 10.1007/s11431-009-0345-4
35. Srinivasan, V.S., Aragão, R., Suzuki, K. & Watanabe, M. (2003) Evaluation of an erosion simulation model in a semiarid region of Brazil. IAHS Publ. 279, 109-116.
36. Srinivasan, V.S., Gomes, H.P., Leprun, J.C. & Silva, I.G. (1988) Erosion studies in Sumé-a semi-arid region in the northeast of Brazil. IAHS Publ. 174, 307-314.
37. Tarboton, D.G., Bras, R.L. & Rodriguez-Iturbe, I. (1991) On the extraction of channel networks from digital elevation data. Hydrol. Process. 5(1), 81-100. doi: 10.1002/hyp.3360050107
38. Thieken, A.H., Lücke, A., Diekkruger, B. & Richter, O. (1999) Scaling input data by GIS for hydrological modelling. Hydrol. Process. 13(4), 611-630. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1085
39. Urfalioglu, O. (2004) Robust estimation of camera rotation, translation and focal length at high outlier rates. Proc. I Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision. Washington, DC, USA), 464-471.
40. Vieux, B. & Needham, S. (1993) Nonpoint-pollution model sensitivity to grid cell size. J. Water Resour. Plann. Manage. 119(2), 141-157. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9496
41. Zhang, W. & Montgomery, D.R. (1994) Digital elevation model grid size, landscape representation, and hydrologic simulations. Water Resou. Res. 30(4), 1019-1028. doi: 10.1029/93WR03553