Sensitivity of Hydrological Model to Landscape Pattern Change

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The hydrological model is a tool to simulate the hydrological processes and to solve the practical problem. The composition and spatial configuration of landscape often result in variation of hydrological conditions. This study is applied to compare the results of SWAT model with different land use maps in Qihe watershed, and shows that the sensitivity of SWAT model to landscape spatial configurations at landscape level is weak, except the landscape composition. After model calibration, both models satisfy the observed data well, which means though the land use map beyond the real landscape spatial configurations, the SWAT model could also describe the water yield of Qihe watershed accurately during the validation period.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 765-767)

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3061-3065

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September 2013

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