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