Development of a knowledge library for automated watershed modeling

  • Authors:

  • Mateja Škerjanec;Nataša Atanasova;Darko Erepnalkoski;Sašo Deroski;Boris Kompare

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, Jamova cesta 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia and Water Science Institute, Hajdrihova 28a, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia;University of Algarve, Centre for Marine and Environmental Research (CIMA), Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal and International Centre for Coastal Ecohydrology (ICCE), Solar do Capit ...;Joef Stefan Institute, Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jamova cesta 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia;Joef Stefan Institute, Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jamova cesta 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia and Joef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Jamova cesta 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia ...;University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, Jamova cesta 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

  • Venue:
  • Environmental Modelling & Software
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

In this work, we develop a library of components for building semi-distributed watershed models. The library incorporates basic modeling knowledge that allows us to adequately model different water fluxes and nutrient loadings on a watershed scale. It is written in a formalism compliant with the equation discovery tool ProBMoT, which can automatically construct watershed models from the components in the library, given a conceptual model specification and measured data. We apply the proposed modeling methodology to the Ribeira da Foupana catchment to extract a set of viable hydrological models. By specifying the conceptual model and using the knowledge library, two different hydrological models are generated. Both models are automatically calibrated against measurements and the model with the lower root mean squared error (RMSE) value is selected as an appropriate hydrological model for the selected study area.