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

Rainfall Runoff Modelling by SWAT 2

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

Rainfall Runoff Modelling by SWAT 3

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

Rainfall Runoff Modelling by SWAT 4

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

Rainfall Runoff Modelling by SWAT 5

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

Rainfall Runoff Modelling by SWAT 6

 Methodology- Preprocessing

Image ref – Srinivas J S,

IJTRA Vol -3, Issue – 4.

Rainfall Runoff Modelling by SWAT 7

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

Rainfall Runoff Modelling by SWAT 8

Methodology- Preprocessing
Watershed Delineation-

Rainfall Runoff Modelling by SWAT 9

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

Rainfall Runoff Modelling by SWAT 10

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

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

Rainfall Runoff Modelling by SWAT 11

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.

Rainfall Runoff Modelling by SWAT 12

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.
Rainfall Runoff Modelling by SWAT 13
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.

Rainfall Runoff Modelling by SWAT 14

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)

Rainfall Runoff Modelling by SWAT 15

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

Rainfall Runoff Modelling by SWAT 16

 Results & Conclusion
Chart Title
700
Simulated Data..
600

500

400

300

200

100

0
1 6 11 16 21 26 31 36 41 46 51 56 61 66 71 76 81 86 91 96 101 106 111 116 121 126

Obsereved Data

Rainfall Runoff Modelling by SWAT 17

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,

Rainfall Runoff Modelling by SWAT 18

 Thank You !!!

Rainfall Runoff Modelling by SWAT 19