Prioritization of Susceptible Watershed to Sediment Yield and Evaluation of Best Management Practice: A Case Study of Awata River, Southern Ethiopia

Table 8

Sediment calibration parameters and their sensitivity ranks.

Rank	Parameter name	Description of parameter	Range	t-stat	value
1	USLE_P.mgt	USLE support practice factor	0–0.6	−6.54	0
2	USLE_K.sol	USLE soil erodibility factor	0-0.1	−5.99	0
3	LAT_SED.hru	Sediment intensity in LAT and GW	0–120	5.77	0
4	USLE_C.plant.dat	USLE land cover management factor	0–0.5	−3.34	0.001
5	SPEXP.bsn	Re-entrained channel sediment routing	1-2	−1.28	0.20
6	CH_EQN.rte	Sediment routing method	0–0.001	−1.12	0.26
7	CH_ERODMO	Channel erodibility factor	0-1	1.11	0.27
8	CH_COV1.rte	Channel erodibility factor	0.6–1	−0.24	0.82
9	BIOMIX.mgt	Biological mixing efficiency	0-1	−0.22	0.83
10	CH_COV2.rte	Channel cover factor	0.6–1	0.08	0.93
11	SPCON.bsn	Parameter for channel sediment routing	0–0.01	−0.02	0.99