Separating Wet and Dry Years to Improve Calibration of SWAT in Barrett Watershed, Southern California

Hydrological models often perform poorly in simulating dry years in regions with large inter-annual variability in rainfall. We calibrated the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model to dry and wet years separately, using the semi-arid Barrett watershed on the west coast of USA as an example. We...

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Main Authors: Xin Gao, Xingwei Chen, Trent W. Biggs, Huaxia Yao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-03-01
Series:Water
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/10/3/274