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Evaluation of landscape and instream modeling to predict watershed nutrient yields
Received 25 May 2005;
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Abstract
The project goal was to loosely couple the SWAT model and the QUAL2E model and compare their combined ability to predict total phosphorus (TP) and NO3-N plus NO2-N yields to the ability of the SWAT model with its completely coupled water quality components to predict TP and NO3-N plus NO2-N yields from War Eagle Creek watershed in Northwest Arkansas. Model predictions were compared using a statistical approach to identify significant differences between the two modeling methods. Results from two variations of the Pearson product-moment correlation (p < 0.05) indicated that correlation coefficients and regression slopes for the two data sets were not significantly different. This implies that neither modeling method was significantly better in predicting monthly TP and NO3-N plus NO2-N yields from the watershed. Additionally, no significant differences were present between predicted outputs of the SWAT model with instream components active compared with when instream components were inactive, indicating a need for further testing and refinement of the SWAT algorithms simulating instream processes. We can further infer that the instream processes available in SWAT may not be enhancing its predictive abilities as far as simulating instream components.
Keywords: QUAL2E; SWAT; Nutrients; Model coupling; Watershed; Stream
Article Outline
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Study site
- 3. Methods
- 3.1. SWAT model with completely coupled instream components
- 3.2. SWAT model loosely coupled to a QUAL2E model
- 3.3. Comparing two modeling methods
- 4. Results and discussion
- 4.1. Method 1 – SWAT model with completely coupled instream components
- 4.2. Method 2 – the SWAT model loosely coupled to the QUAL2E model
- 4.3. Comparison of the two modeling methods
- 5. Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- Appendix. SWAT parameters referred to in this paper
- References






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