Three complementary methods for sensitivity analysis of a water quality model

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• 作者：X.Y. Sun^a ; ^b ; ^{xiaoying.sun@anu.edu.au} ; L.T.H. Newham^a ; B.F.W. Croke^a ; ^b ; J.P. Norton^b
• 关键词：Hydrological modelling ; Water quality ; One-at-A-Time ; Morris Method ; Monte Carlo ; Regional sensitivity analysis
• 刊名：Environmental Modelling and Software
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：27_13648152
• 类别：env
• 出版时间：November, 2012
• 卷：37
• 期：Complete
• 页码：19-29
• 文件大小：1027 K

摘要

In this paper, sensitivity analysis (SA) has been used to assess model sensitivities to input parameter values in a water quality model. The water quality model incorporates a rainfall-runoff sub-model and a sediment load estimation sub-model, and is calibrated against hydrologic and water quality data from the Moruya River catchment in southeast Australia. The tested methods, One-at-A-Time (OAT), Morris Method (MM) and Regional SA (RSA) are found to be complementary, and help to characterise the behaviour of the water quality model. The most important parameters are plant stress threshold (f), coefficient of evapotranspiration (e), catchment moisture threshold (d), in decreasing order, indicating that sediment and nutrient loads are more sensitive to parameters that affect the magnitude of flows than those (v_s, 蟿^q, 蟿^s) that control the timing and shape of the peak in a time series. But this application shows a need to be flexible in the use of different SA techniques. RSA is more appropriate for complex models where system nonlinearities and parameter interactions are more likely to be important. The RSA suggests that f and v_s have strong interactions in the influence on nitrogen estimation. This study is also valuable for future uncertainty analysis, by separating the source of uncertainty of model parameters from the uncertainty in the model inputs.