Predicting & Analysing Discharge and Sediment of Sore Catchment, Baro-Akobo Sub Basin Using Saturation Excess Model, Western Ethiopia

Author:

Fenta Asnakew1,Nyuot Gatbel2

Affiliation:

1. Department of Water Resources and Irrigation Engineering, Gambella University, Gambella, Ethiopia

2. Department of Civil Engineering, Gambella University, Gambella, Ethiopia

Abstract

Soil erosion, land degradation, and soil loss are major problems in Ethiopia's Baro-Akobo Basin. In the Ethiopian highlands, many hydrological models have been employed to forecast sediment and discharge in watersheds of varying sizes. PED mode was used for this study because it requires fewer data and is well recognized by academics in Ethiopia's Upper Blue Nile. The parameter efficient semi-distributed watershed model (PED) was used to study the prediction of discharge and sediment in the Sore watershed. The objective of this study was to analyze and forecast the sediment and discharge from the Sore catchment in the western Ethiopian region of the Baro-Akobo Sub basin. The selected watershed was Sore (1665.5 Km2) in the Baro-Akobo River Basin. The stream flow and sediment data for the Sore watershed from 2005 to 2013 and 2014 to 2018 were used for the model's calibration and validation by the Ministry of Water and Electricity. For the Sore watershed, the daily time step scale model efficiency of PED-W was found to be NSE= 0.40 and NSE= 0.44 for the calibration of sediment and discharge, respectively. Similarly, NSE values for the Sore watershed's NSE= -0.82 and PED-W's discharge and sediment during the validation period were found. As a result, there was a range of uneven to acceptable agreement between the simulated and observed discharge and sediment at daily time steps. In comparison to the daily time step scale, the models' performance varied and performed better on the monthly time step scale. According to the overall model performance, the PED-W model was shown to be less accurate than the SWAT model for estimating stream flow and sediment output. The PED model, on the other hand, was exactly the same as the previously employed SWAT model and was used for calibration and validation at monthly time steps.

Publisher

Science Publishing Group

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