Automatic calibration of the US EPA SWMM model for a large urban catchment
Automatic calibration of the US EPA SWMM model for a large urban catchment
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DOI:
10.1061/(asce)0733-9429(2008)134:4(466
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2008-04-01
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Stenstrom, Michael K.
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Barco, Janet;Wong, Kenneth M.;Stenstrom, Michael K.
The Storm Water Management Model was adapted and calibrated to the Ballona Creek Watershed, a large urban catchment in Southern California. A geographic information system (GIS) was used to process the input data and generate the spatial distribution of precipitation. An optimization procedure using the complex method was incorporated to estimate runoff parameters, and ten storms were used for calibration and validation. The calibrated model predicted the observed outputs with reasonable accuracy. A sensitivity analysis showed the impact of the model parameters, and results were most sensitive to imperviousness and impervious depression storage and least sensitive to Manning roughness for surface flow. Optimized imperviousness was greater than imperviousness predicted from land-use information. The results demonstrate that this methodology of integrating GIS and stormwater model with a constrained optimization technique can be applied to large watersheds.