Proceedings of the 2016 2nd International Conference on Architectural, Civil and Hydraulics Engineering (ICACHE 2016)

An Efficient Parameter Calibration Method for API Hydrological Model

Authors
Jiang Wu, Jianzhong Zhou, Shuang Zhu, Hairong Zhang, Jun Guo
Corresponding Author
Jiang Wu
Available Online November 2016.
DOI
10.2991/icache-16.2016.20How to use a DOI?
Keywords
API hydrological model; parameter calibration method; rainfall-runoff correlation diagram; instantaneous unit hydrograph
Abstract

API hydrological model is common used on streamflow forecasting for its' simple structure and robust ability on acquiring high precision forecasting results. But for a long time, parameter calibration has been the major difficulty for the use of API hydrological model. API model develops from the empirical approach. It's more difficult than other hydrological models to achieve the aim of fully automatic parameter calibration without artificial experience processing. In this paper, a method is proposed for enhancing the efficiency of parameter calibration for API hydrological model. In this method, the rainfall-runoff correlation diagram is drawn according to rainfall and flood data and instantaneous unit hydrograph is adopted to calculate the outflow by net rainfall. What's more, an intelligent algorithm is employed for the solution of parameters of API hydrological model. The result shows that the proposed method is efficient on parameter calibration for API hydrological model.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2016 2nd International Conference on Architectural, Civil and Hydraulics Engineering (ICACHE 2016)
Series
Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date
November 2016
ISBN
978-94-6252-255-8
ISSN
2352-5401
DOI
10.2991/icache-16.2016.20How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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