Discharge Assessment by Using Integrated Hydrologic Model for Environmental Technology Development

Abstract:

River water quality degradation is one of the most significant environmental challenges. Over the years, many models have been used to investigate the current state of Malaysian rivers and its effects to the environment. River discharge is an important factor in water quality investigation. An integrative computational model, GIS coupled with SWAT model was being used to predict river discharge of this research. The simulation results in the period 1999 to 2010 represented fluctuation of discharge relatively well with both R² and NSI values were above 0.6. The results proved that the development of integrative GIS technology coupled with SWAT model is a good tool for environmental technology development in terms of investigating the current state of Langat river water quality as well as the capability of simulating the river discharge in the river basin. This shows that GIS-SWAT interface can be a reliable tool for water quality modeling in Malaysia in the future and further development on the software technology is a benefit for the water resources and environmental studies.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 911)
• Pages: 378-382
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.911.378
• Online since: March 2014
• Authors: Mohd Fozi Ali*, Nor Faiza A. Rahman, Khairi Khalid
• Keywords: Environmental Technology, GIS-SWAT Interface, Langat River, River Discharge

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