Fields of Application of SWAT Hydrological Model—A Review
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results
3.1. Runoff Simulation
3.2. Non-Point Source Pollution
3.3. Hydrological Impacts under Changing Environment
4. Discussion
4.1. Weaknesses
4.2. Strengths
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Data Type | Description | |
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Set-up | Digital Elevation Model (Topography) | 10, 25, 50, 100 m resolution (most often) |
Soil characteristics | Raster data as an input for all the spatial data of soil types, Database describing soil profiles and horizons | |
Land cover | Spatially distributed land cover classes for 1990, 2000, 2006, 2012, and 2018 * | |
Run | Climate data | Station data for air temperature, precipitation, relative humidity, wind speed, solar radiation |
Calibration | Biomass | Information about Leaf Area Index for each land cover |
Discharge data | Mostly less than 20 years of recorded discharge data | |
Suspended sediment | Suspended sediment discharge | |
Evapotranspiration | The Soil Evaporation Compensation factor, The Plant Evaporation Compensation factor, The Soil Albedo, The Plant Canopy, etc. | |
Nutrients concentrations | Monitoring of concentrations of nitrogen or phosphate compounds in surface waters at the station |
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Janjić, J.; Tadić, L. Fields of Application of SWAT Hydrological Model—A Review. Earth 2023, 4, 331-344. https://doi.org/10.3390/earth4020018
Janjić J, Tadić L. Fields of Application of SWAT Hydrological Model—A Review. Earth. 2023; 4(2):331-344. https://doi.org/10.3390/earth4020018
Chicago/Turabian StyleJanjić, Josip, and Lidija Tadić. 2023. "Fields of Application of SWAT Hydrological Model—A Review" Earth 4, no. 2: 331-344. https://doi.org/10.3390/earth4020018