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KINEROS2 – AGWA Suite of Modeling Tools
Citation:
Goodrich, D., C. Unkrich, Y. Korgaonkar, I. Burns, J. Kennedy, G. Sidman, B. Sheppard, M. Hernandez, D. Guertin, S. Miller, W. Kepner, P. Heilman, AND M. Nearing. KINEROS2 – AGWA Suite of Modeling Tools. In Proceedings, SedHyd Meeting, Reno, NV, April 19 - 23, 2015. Urban & Fischer Verlag, 1759-1770, (2015).
Impact/Purpose:
This work provides environmental protection managers and practitioners with an ability to evaluate arid and semi-arid regions. The AGWA tool can be a used to inform planning decisions and conduct watershed modeling and assessments at multiple time and space scales.
Description:
KINEROS2 (K2) originated in the 1960s as a distributed event-based rainfall-runoff erosion model abstracting the watershed as a cascade of overland flow elements contributing to channel model elements. Development and improvement of K2 has continued for a variety of projects and purposes resulting in an informal suite of K2-based modeling tools. Like any detailed, distributed watershed modeling tool, the K2 suite of tools can require considerable time to delineate watersheds, discretize them into modeling elements and then parameterize these elements. These requirements motivated the development of the Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment (AGWA) tool. This ESRI ArcGIS-based tool uses nationally available, GIS data layers to parameterize, execute, and visualize results from the SWAT and KINEROS2 models. By employing these two models, AGWA can conduct watershed modeling and assessments at multiple time and space scales. The objectives of this paper are to: 1) Provide background in the development of K2 and AGWA; 2) Provide an overview of new features; 3) Briefly describe recent novel applications; and 4) Discuss plans for future model improvements.