Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Course- Advance Hydrology (CE610A)

Term Paper on
Rainfall Runoff Modelling for Identification of Check Dam sites using SWAT
In Sina Catchment, Maharashtra
Name of Student Deshpande Prasad Jayant
Roll no -17103270
Program Ph.D. (HWRE , Civil Dept.) 1
Contents
Overview
Objective
Methodology
Preprocessing
Model Run
Results & Conclusion
Summary & Future Scope

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Overview
Study Area Sina catchment.
Sub-basin of Bhima
Bhima is sub-basin of Krishna River
Catchment Area = 12600 km2
Length = 180 km.
Highest point in watershed = 818 m
Lowest point in watershed = 441 m

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Overview
SWAT (Soil Water Assessment Tool)
Open Source Hydrological Modelling Tool.
Developers-
Natural Resources Conservation Service, and
Texas A&M University
ArcGIS / QGIS as a base GIS
Type
Semi Distributed Model

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Overview
More facts about SWAT
Used for
1. Surface Runoff
2. Evapotranspiration
3. Ground Water Flow
4. Sediment Transport
5. Pollutant Transport

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Objective
Rainfall Runoff Modelling in SWAT
Calculation of
Cross verification with observed data
Finding Statistical Parameters

Identification of Check Dam sites in Sina catchment

Identification of Sub-basins of Maximum Runoff
Locating the Sub-basins in Catchment Map

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 Methodology- Preprocessing

Image ref Srinivas J S,

IJTRA Vol -3, Issue 4.

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Methodology- Preprocessing
Watershed Delineation-
DEM used SRTM 90 m resolution
UTM Zone 43N
Flow Accumulation & Direction
Creation of streams depending upon cell
size
Selection of watershed outlet
Sub-basin creation

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Methodology- Preprocessing
Watershed Delineation-

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Methodology- Preprocessing
HRU Creation
LULC Data
Ref- waterbase.org
Soil Map
Ref FAO
(Food & Agriculture
Organization of UN)
4 Soil types present in study
area
Predominant Type - Clay

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Methodology- Preprocessing
HRU Creation
Slope Map
Extracted from DEM.
More the slope classes, better the Threshold
results.
Currently divided into 4 classes

Threshold Setting-
Adjusting the threshold values for LULC,
Soil & Slope bands, number of HRUs
formed is adjusted.

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Methodology- Preprocessing
HRU Creation
Slope Map
Extracted from DEM.
More the slope classes, better the results.
Currently divided into 4 classes

Threshold Setting-
Adjusting the threshold values for LULC,
Soil & Slope bands, number of HRUs
formed is adjusted.

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Methodology- Preprocessing
HRU Creation
Raster file of HRUs is
generated
A report in text format is
also generated containing
unique HRU no, soil type
and LULC .
Also its percentage to total
area is given.
HRUs are independent on
weather data.

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Methodology- Preprocessing
Weather Data
Main Input Parameters-
1. Precipitation
2. Relative Humidity
3. Temperature
4. Solar radiation
5. Wind speed
Weather data input is
form 1965 to 2005.

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Methodology- Model Run
Period of Simulation
Period of Simulation-
1991 to 2000
Printout Setting
Warm up period
3 years
Output in format .std and
.mdb (Microsoft Access)

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Results & Conclusion
Catchment Characteristics Observed
No. of sub-basins created = 17
Largest = 184401 ha (14.69 %)
Smallest = 2524 ha (0.20 %)

No. of HRU created = 192

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 Results & Conclusion
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Obsereved Data

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Results & Conclusion
Site Selection for Check Dams
Location should be such that
the runoff at that sub-basin
should be maximum.
Sub-basins with maximum
surface runoff are 7,6,2 resp.
Check dam location is
encircled in the map,

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 Thank You !!!

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