How to do calibration for 2 separate periods (2002-2004 &2009-2010 for calibration and 2005-2008 for validation) in SWAT-CUP

[mohamed ouarani]

Hello dear SWAT-Cup users,

Please, I built a model of my study area and I am trying to calibrate it and validate it. To do so I divided the period (2000-2010) in 3 periods; 2000 & 2001 as warm-up,  2002-2004 & 2009-2010 as a calibration period and 2005-2008 as validation period. This choice is justified by the need to have calibration and validation periods with similar means and variances.

The problem is that I do not know how to implement this on SWAT-Cup. 
What I did is just considering the entire period (2000-2010) in the file.cio (see the screenshot) while for the observed.txt file, I just deemed the observed value for the calibration period (2002-2004 &2009-2010). It's like I have considered the validation period as missing data (screenshot below), I don't know if this could work or this will in somehow mislead the results...

Thank you in advance!

Mohamed Ouarani

[Sushma Poudel]

Hi, Can you share with me how did you solve the issues?

[sumendra meena]

First of all do the calibration by inserting data for the period.After calibration click on the validate button and do again the calibration for the remaining period.

sumendra meena

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[Ibrahim BM]

Why two periods of calibration? You can just do it one after one.