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Title: Advances in water resources assessment with SWAT - an overview

Author
item KRYSANOVA, VALENTINA - Potsdam Institute
item White, Michael

Submitted to: Hydrological Sciences Journal
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 3/11/2015
Publication Date: 4/20/2015
Publication URL: http://handle.nal.usda.gov/10113/62891
Citation: Krysanova, V., White, M.J. 2015. Advances in water resources assessment with SWAT - an overview. Hydrological Sciences Journal. 60(5):771-83. doi:10.1080/02626667.2015.1029482.

Interpretive Summary: This paper introduces a Special Issue containing 12 research articles which present current applications of the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) for water resources assessment. The presented model applications were conducted across a variety of scales, climates, and locations. These articles address nutrients, sediments and related conservation practices, impoundments and wetlands, irrigation, bioenergy crops, climate change, and land use changes. This collection demonstrates and increasing number of SWAT applications for water resources assessment.

Technical Abstract: This paper introduces a Special Issue containing 12 research articles which present current applications of the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) for water resources assessment. Firstly, an overview of selected recently published articles with application of SWAT is given. The articles address the following topics: nutrients and related Best Management Practices (BMPs), sediments and related BMPs, impoundment and wetlands, irrigation, bioenergy crops, climate change impact and land use change impacts. After that articles from this Special Issue, covering the themes: surface runoff and sediments, non-point source pollution, surface water and groundwater, impacts of climate and land use change, and large-scale SWAT applications, are shortly described. The presented model applications of SWAT were conducted across a variety of spatial scales, physiographic regions and climatic zones. This article collection demonstrates that applications of SWAT for water resources assessment are growing in size and cover drainage basins in many regions worldwide.