The project "Determination of Hydrological Cycle Parameters with a Conceptual Hydrological Model" is accepted to be funded under TUBITAK 1003- Primary Subjects R&D Funding Program within the call SU301.

In this project it is aimed to develop a conceptual semi-distributed hydrological model based on the local conditions and the available data. The model will be an open source model that can be open to further developments and the hydrological processes will be modelled by using some conceptual approaches as well as the physical equations. The number of the parameters will be kept as minimum as possible and the measurement posibility and the availability of the parameters will be considered in the model development. Satellite based data will be also used in case of non availabilty of insitu data. Besides, some new techniques like Cosmic ray sensors, distributed temperature sensors, hydrogeophysic methods will be also used to understand the hydrological processes in detail. The contribution of these techniques in hydrological modelling will be analyzed. New measurements will be performed in a test basin in Seyhan basin. The model will be calibrated by using both discharge values observed at the outlet of the sub-basins and the ground water levels. The uncertainity analysis of the model parameters will be performed by using Monte Carlo analysis. The performance of the model will be tested in other gauged basins in Seyhan basin.

Researchers from Civil Eng. Dept Water Resources Lab, Lancaster University, State Water Works, GaziUniversity, Ahi Evran University and private companies Beray Engineering and Hisrosaf Software are contributing to this project.