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BASINS 4 lectures, data sets, and exercises (August 2010)

The following list is ordered according to the workshop schedule and provides a link to a PDF file (about PDF). The BASINS 4 Dataset (70 MB) for the exercises is in ".ZIP" format. Please read the "readme1st" file for correct placement of the folders in the BASINS directory.

Lecture Title
Lecture 1 (1.9 MB) Introduction to BASINS
Lecture 2 (3.3 MB) Introduction to the HSPF Model
Lecture 3 (927 K) Watershed Delineation
Exercise 1 (1.7 MB) Building a BASINS Project and Data Download Tool
Lecture 4 (908 K) Weather Data and WDM Utility
Exercise 2 (2.6 MB) Manual and Automatic Watershed Delineation
Lecture 5 (655 K) Hydrologic Processes
Exercise 3 (455 K) WDM Utility
Lecture 6 (675 K) Channel Routing
Lecture 7 (1.3 MB) Operational Aspects
Lecture 8 (1.7 MB) Watershed Segmentation
Exercise 4 (879 K) Introduction to HSPF and GenScn
Exercise 5 (328 K) Segmentation
Exercise 6 (420 K) WinHSPF Hydrology Calibration
Lecture 9 (1 MB) Snow Processes, Parameters, and Calibration
Exercise 7 (431 K) HSPEXP
Lecture 10 (1.6 MB) Sediment Processes, Parameters, and Calibration
Lecture 11 (515 K) Nonpoint Source (NPS) Quality Processes, Parameters, and Calibration
Lecture 12 (1.7 MB) Water Quality Modeling: Temperature, Sediment, and General Constituents
Exercise 8 (700 K) Simulation of Snow Accumulation and Melt
Exercise 9a (282 K)
Exercise 9b (277 K)
Sediment Erosion
Sediment Transport
Exercise 10 (257 K)
Exercise 11 (345 K)
Bacteria and Temperature
AGCHEM
Lecture 13 (1.7 MB) AGCHEM Processes, Parameters, and Calibration
Exercise 12 (217 K) Nutrient, Dissolved Oxygen, and Algae Modeling
Exercise 13 (261 K) Water Quality Calibration
Lecture 14 (808 K) Instream Water Quality – Biochemical Reactions
Lecture 15 (1.5 MB) Watershed Model Calibration and Validation
Lecture 16 (1.7 MB) Analysis of Alternatives: Modeling Scenarios, BMPs, and TMDLs
Lecture 17 (412 K) Additional HSPF Features
Exercise 14 (222 K) Modeling Alternatives Scenarios, BMPs, and TMDLs
Exercise 15 (242 K) HSPFParm Tool
Appendix B (177 K) Connecting Exercise 4 to Exercise 5: Begin Hydrology Calibration
Appendix C (114 K) Calculating Observed Flow Volumes for Calibration
Appendix D (67 K) Downloading HSPEXP
Appendix E (632 K) Using the TMDL USLE Tool to Estimate Sediment Loads
Appendix F (264 K) Manually Adding Temperature and Fecal Coliform
Appendix G (45 K) Pollutant Selection Tool Information
BASINS 4 Dataset (70 MB, ZIP) BASINS 4 Dataset for all exercises

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Climate Assessment Tool (CAT) in BASINS 4 Tutorial

Recommended Daily Schedule for CAT Workshop:
Lecture C1: Introduction to the Climate Assessment Tool (CAT) (PDF, 3.3MB)   
Lecture C2: Climate Scenario in CAT (PDF, 3.5MB)  

Exercise C1: Adjusting Historic Precipitation and Air Temperature Records through CAT (PDF, 721kb)  
Exercise C2: Creating Climate Scenarios Using CAT (PDF, 272kb)  

Lecture C3: Endpoints in CAT (PDF, 2.4MB)   

Exercise C3: Specifying Endpoints Using CAT (PDF, 185kb)  
Exercise C4: Analyzing Endpoints Using CAT (PDF, 395kb)  

Exercise C5 (Optional): Modeling Climate Change Impacts Using SWAT and CAT (PDF, 374kb)   

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WinHSPF Calibration

Take an on-line tutorial that steps you through starting and calibrating the HSPF Model in BASINS. Or download the calibration tutorial (.zip file) to your hard drive, unzip the files to a clean directory, and open file di.htm to start the guide.

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