Modeling the Effects of Land-Cover Change on Rainfall-Runoff Relationships in a Semiarid, Eastern Mediterranean Watershed
Table 1
Calibration and validation objective functions (OFs). Vobs and Vsim are the observed and simulated runoff volume values, respectively; QMXobs and QMXsim are the observed and simulated peak discharge values, respectively; Qpred and Qsim are the simulated and observed discharge values, respectively. denotes time increment.
Function
Description
Total runoff volume ratio between simulated and observed measurements, VOL, in %.
Peak discharge ratio between simulated and observed measurements, PQR, in %.
Absolute deviation between peak discharges of simulated and observed measurements, ADPQ, in m3/s.
Mean absolute discharge deviation between simulated and observed measurements, MAQD, in m3/s.
Root mean square discharge deviation between simulated and observed measurements, RMS, in m3/s.
Maximum absolute discharge deviation between simulated and observed measurements, MXAQ, in m3/s.