Research Article
Prioritization of Susceptible Watershed to Sediment Yield and Evaluation of Best Management Practice: A Case Study of Awata River, Southern Ethiopia
Table 9
Summary of sediment calibrated parameter values for the study area.
| No. | Parameter | Description of parameter | Range value | Calibrated value |
| 1 | USLE_P.mgt | USLE support practice factor | 0–0.6 | 0.546 | 2 | USLE_K.sol | USLE soil erodibility factor | 0–0.1 | 0.012 | 3 | LAT_SED.hru | Sediment concentration in lateral and groundwater flow | 0–120 | 117.95 | 4 | USLE_C.plant.dat | Universal soil loss equation land cover management factor | 0.003–0.5 | 0.144 | 5 | SPEXP.bsn | Parameter for calculating sediment re-entrained in channel sediment routing | 1-2 | 1.61 | 6 | CH_EQN.rte | Sediment routing method | 0–0.001 | 0.00033 | 7 | CH_ERODMO.rte | Channel erodibility factor | 0-1 | 0.69 |
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