Research Article
Assessing Hydropower Potential in Nepal’s Sunkoshi River Basin: An Integrated GIS and SWAT Hydrological Modeling Approach
Table 2
Sensitivity ranking of model parameters of SWAT in the Sunkoshi River basin.
| Rank | Parameter name | Fitted value | value | t-sat |
| 1 | CN2 | −0.0531 | 0.001 | 17.04 | 2 | ALPHA_BNK | 0.825 | 0.001 | 10.79 | 3 | LAT_TIME | 133.740005 | 0.001 | −3.29 | 4 | RCHRG_DP | 0.063 | 0.02 | −2.43 | 5 | ALPHA_BF | 0.419 | 1.95 | 0.05 | 6 | GW_DELAY | 13.5 | −1.91 | 0.06 | 7 | SOL_AWC | −0.0009 | −1.53 | 0.13 | 8 | SOL_K | −0.0879 | 1.47 | 0.14 | 9 | OV_N | −0.12675 | 1.27 | 0.20 | 10 | DEEPST | 40650 | 1.13 | 0.26 | 11 | SURLAG | 2.94795 | −1.04 | 0.30 | 12 | GW_SPYLD | 0.01 | 0.96 | 0.34 | 13 | SOL_ALB | −0.0537 | −0.93 | 0.35 | 14 | REVAPMN | 44.5 | −0.85 | 0.39 | 15 | GW_REVAP | 000749 | 0.82 | 0.41 | 16 | ESCO | 0.005 | 0.72 | 0.47 | 17 | SOL_BD | −0.0279 | 0.70 | 0.49 | 18 | CH_N2 | 0.05611 | −0.66 | 0.51 | 19 | SOL_Z | −0.1107 | −0.66 | 0.51 | 20 | _CH_K2 | 394.565002 | −0.54 | 0.59 | 21 | CANMX | 38.1 | 0.41 | 0.69 | 22 | SHALLST | 30350 | 0.27 | 0.79 | 23 | GWQMN | 3785 | 0.25 | 0.81 | 24 | EPCO | 0.455 | 0.05 | 0.96 | 25 | SLSUBBSN | 14.34 | −0.03 | 0.97 |
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