| Title: | Assessment of the effects of land use patterns on hydrologic landscape functions: development of sustainable land use concepts for low mountain range areas |
| Authors: | Fohrer, N., S. Haverkamp and H.-G. Frede |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Journal: | Hydrological Processes |
| Volume (Issue): | 19(3) |
| Pages: | 659-672 |
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| DOI: | 10.1002/hyp.5623 |
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| Model: | SWAT-G |
| Broad Application Category: | hydrologic only |
| Primary Application Category: | HRU, subbasin, grid and/or landscape unit delineation effects |
| Secondary Application Category: | land use change assessment |
| Watershed Description: | 60 km^2 Aar River, located in the Lahn-Dill-Bergland region in the State of Hessen in Germany. |
| Calibration Summary: | daily 1986-87 E = 0.85 (r = 0.69) |
| Validation Summary: | 1983-84: daily & monthly E values = .64 (r = .79) & .88 (r = .95) |
| General Comments: | A range of subwatershed & HRU configurations were evaluated using the SUSAT tool within the IOSWAT interface. Streamflow was found to stabilize at 5 subwatersheds without HRUs or 15 subwatersheds with 145 HRUs. The Proland agric. econ. model was then used to determine land use distributions for 7 different field size scenarios ranging from 0.5 to 20 ha. Water balance results are reported in response to the different land use scenarios. |
| Language: | English |
| Keywords: | land use change; hydrologic catchment modelling; future land use scenarios; SWAT-G; IOSWAT |