Daily runoff simulation using Eight Day Period of MODIS satellite images and SRM hydrological model (case study: Ravansar Sanjabi basin in kermanshah Province)

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Seyyed Vahid Shahoei ¹
• Jahangir Porhemmat ²
• Hossein Sedghi ³
• Majid Hosseini ⁴
• Ali Saremi ⁵

¹ Ph.D. Candidate in Water Resources Engineering, Department of Water science and Engineering, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

² Prof. of Soil Conservation and Watershed Management Research Institute (SCWMRI), Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, Iran

³ Professor, Department of Water science and Engineering, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

⁴ Associate Professor, Soil Conservation and Watershed Management Research Institute, Tehran, Iran

⁵ Assistant Professor, Department of Water science and Engineering, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

In this paper the daily runoff of Ravansar Sanjabi basin (1260 Km^2), in Kermanshah Province of Iran is simulated through SRM hydrological model. The Snow Cover Area variable which a main and necessary variable in SRM model is calculated from MOD10A2 product of MODIS which separate snow cover maps with 8-day intervals. The runoff is simulated in a period of 2 years from 2002 to 2003, where 2002 (January 1 to December 31, 2002) is selected as a calibration period and 2003 (January 1 to 31 December, 2003) as a validation period of model. The results of simulations during the calibration and validation periods were evaluated through three statistical indices namely Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency coefficient (NSE), coefficient of determination (R2), and volume difference (Dv). According to compared simulated and observed daily flow hydrographs and also calculated statistical coefficients in 2002 and 2003, the SRM shows appropriate and acceptable results in simulating daily runoff during both calibration and validation periods, so that the NSE coefficients are 0.9 and 0.85 for calibration and validation periods, respectively.

Keywords

• Daily runoff
• MODIS satellite
• SRM
• Calibration
• validation

20.1001.1.20086377.1398.12.40.1.7

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