AN AUTO-CALIBRATION TOOL FOR THE AGRICULTURAL POLICY ENVIRONMENTAL EXTENDER (APEX) MODEL

作者：Wang, X.^*; Yen, H.; Liu, Q.; Liu, J.

来源：Transactions of the ASABE, 2014, 57(4): 1087-1098.

DOI：10.13031/trans.57.10601

• APEX
• Auto-calibration
• Hydrology
• Sediment

The Agricultural Policy Environmental eXtender (APEX) model has emerged as one of the key scientific tools applied worldwide for assessing a variety of water and environmental issues. The Fortran-coded model has also seen a rapid progression in user interface development for facilitating input management. However, an auto-calibration tool has not yet been developed for it. In this study, an open-source auto-calibration tool (APEX-CUTE) was developed using a dynamically dimensioned search algorithm with optimization options of aggregating different objective functions. The case study in the upper Bawanghe River watershed in Inner Mongolia, China, resulted in average percent errors within 20% and Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency (NSE) values from 0.47 to 0.72 for monthly and annual streamflow and sediment yields during the calibration period. The validation period had NSE values from 0.41 to 0.62 and average percent errors within 15%. APEX-CUTE is a computationally efficient and flexible tool for enhancing APEX calibration. Factors that may affect the model performance are discussed, and the forthcoming improvements to the APEX-CUTE are described.

• 出版日期2014
• 单位北京林业大学