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Shalamu Abudu, Zhu-ping Sheng, Chun-liang Cui, Muatter Saydi, Hamed-Zamani Sabzi, James Phillip King. 2016: Integration of aspect and slope in snowmelt runoff modeling in a mountain watershed. Water Science and Engineering, 9(4): 265-273. doi: 10.1016/j.wse.2016.07.002
Citation: Shalamu Abudu, Zhu-ping Sheng, Chun-liang Cui, Muatter Saydi, Hamed-Zamani Sabzi, James Phillip King. 2016: Integration of aspect and slope in snowmelt runoff modeling in a mountain watershed. Water Science and Engineering, 9(4): 265-273. doi: 10.1016/j.wse.2016.07.002
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Integration of aspect and slope in snowmelt runoff modeling in a mountain watershed

doi: 10.1016/j.wse.2016.07.002

  • a Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79927-5020, USA

  • b Xinjiang Water Resources Research Institute, Urumqi 830049, China

  • c New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003-8006, USA

Funds:  This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51069017) and the International Collaborative Research Program of Xinjiang Science and Technology Commission (Grant No. 20126013).
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  • Corresponding author: Shalamu Abudu
  • Received Date: 2016-03-18
  • Rev Recd Date: 2016-07-01
    Abstract
  • This study assessed the performances of the traditional temperature-index snowmelt runoff model (SRM) and an SRM model with a finer zonation based on aspect and slope (SRM+AS model) in a data-scarce mountain watershed in the Urumqi River Basin, in Northwest China. The proposed SRM+AS model was used to estimate the melt rate with the degree-day factor (DDF) through the division of watershed elevation zones based on aspect and slope. The simulation results of the SRM+AS model were compared with those of the traditional SRM model to identify the improvements of the SRM+AS model’s performance with consideration of topographic features of the watershed. The results show that the performance of the SRM+AS model has improved slightly compared to that of the SRM model. The coefficients of determination increased from 0.73, 0.69, and 0.79 with the SRM model to 0.76, 0.76, and 0.81 with the SRM+AS model during the simulation and validation periods in 2005, 2006, and 2007, respectively. The proposed SRM+AS model that considers aspect and slope can improve the accuracy of snowmelt runoff simulation compared to the traditional SRM model in mountain watersheds in arid regions by proper parameterization, careful input data selection, and data preparation.

     

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