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The Application of the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) Model for the Estimation of Runoff and Sediment on a Monthly Time Resolution

The Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) model is utilized to simulate the sediment and runoff processes. According to previous studies, WEPP model provides impressive results in watersheds of diverse climates and scales. It is also capable of modeling the sediment transportation processes and co...

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Main Authors: Akbari, Abolghasem, Sedaei, Leila, Mehdi, Naderi, Azizan, Abu Samah, Sedaei, Nazila
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Published: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015
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TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
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spelling my.ump.umpir.92192015-09-08T03:32:36Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/9219/ The Application of the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) Model for the Estimation of Runoff and Sediment on a Monthly Time Resolution Akbari, Abolghasem Sedaei, Leila Mehdi, Naderi Azizan, Abu Samah Sedaei, Nazila TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) The Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) model is utilized to simulate the sediment and runoff processes. According to previous studies, WEPP model provides impressive results in watersheds of diverse climates and scales. It is also capable of modeling the sediment transportation processes and consequently predicting subsequent deposition sites. In this study, the geo-spatial interface for WEPP (GeoWEPP) was employed as a GIS framework to extract the data required from the ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model (ASTER-GDEM) dataset which was subsequently used as the model input. The case study was based on monthly data consisting of average sediment and runoff estimation from the Emameh sub-basin, in northern Iran. The model estimations were validated through field measurements. Two statistical measures of co-efficiency including the Nash–Sutcliffe Efficiency (NSE), and the coefficient of determination (R 2) were considered to evaluate how well the model predictions could explain the variability of observations in the field. The model performed favorably as corroborated by a reasonably high NSE of 0.99 and an R 2 value of 0.92 for sediment. In the case of runoff, the results were slightly inferior, but still acceptable with an NSE of 0.76 and R 2 value of 0.62. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/9219/1/The%20application%20of%20the%20Water%20Erosion%20Prediction%20Project%20%28WEPP%29.pdf application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/9219/7/The%20Application%20of%20the%20Water%20Erosion%20Prediction%20Project%20%28WEPP%29%20Model%20For%20The%20Estimation%20of%20Runoff%20and%20Sediment%20on%20a%20Monthly%20Time%20Resolution.pdf Akbari, Abolghasem and Sedaei, Leila and Mehdi, Naderi and Azizan, Abu Samah and Sedaei, Nazila (2015) The Application of the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) Model for the Estimation of Runoff and Sediment on a Monthly Time Resolution. Environmental Earth Sciences, 74 (7). pp. 5827-5837. ISSN 1866-6299 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12665-015-4600-7 DOI: 10.1007/s12665-015-4600-7
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topic TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
spellingShingle TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Akbari, Abolghasem
Sedaei, Leila
Mehdi, Naderi
Azizan, Abu Samah
Sedaei, Nazila
The Application of the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) Model for the Estimation of Runoff and Sediment on a Monthly Time Resolution
description The Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) model is utilized to simulate the sediment and runoff processes. According to previous studies, WEPP model provides impressive results in watersheds of diverse climates and scales. It is also capable of modeling the sediment transportation processes and consequently predicting subsequent deposition sites. In this study, the geo-spatial interface for WEPP (GeoWEPP) was employed as a GIS framework to extract the data required from the ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model (ASTER-GDEM) dataset which was subsequently used as the model input. The case study was based on monthly data consisting of average sediment and runoff estimation from the Emameh sub-basin, in northern Iran. The model estimations were validated through field measurements. Two statistical measures of co-efficiency including the Nash–Sutcliffe Efficiency (NSE), and the coefficient of determination (R 2) were considered to evaluate how well the model predictions could explain the variability of observations in the field. The model performed favorably as corroborated by a reasonably high NSE of 0.99 and an R 2 value of 0.92 for sediment. In the case of runoff, the results were slightly inferior, but still acceptable with an NSE of 0.76 and R 2 value of 0.62.
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author Akbari, Abolghasem
Sedaei, Leila
Mehdi, Naderi
Azizan, Abu Samah
Sedaei, Nazila
author_facet Akbari, Abolghasem
Sedaei, Leila
Mehdi, Naderi
Azizan, Abu Samah
Sedaei, Nazila
author_sort Akbari, Abolghasem
title The Application of the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) Model for the Estimation of Runoff and Sediment on a Monthly Time Resolution
title_short The Application of the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) Model for the Estimation of Runoff and Sediment on a Monthly Time Resolution
title_full The Application of the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) Model for the Estimation of Runoff and Sediment on a Monthly Time Resolution
title_fullStr The Application of the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) Model for the Estimation of Runoff and Sediment on a Monthly Time Resolution
title_full_unstemmed The Application of the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) Model for the Estimation of Runoff and Sediment on a Monthly Time Resolution
title_sort application of the water erosion prediction project (wepp) model for the estimation of runoff and sediment on a monthly time resolution
publisher Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
publishDate 2015
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/9219/1/The%20application%20of%20the%20Water%20Erosion%20Prediction%20Project%20%28WEPP%29.pdf
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