The effectiveness of conservation practices depends on their placement on the fields within the watershed. Cost … Assessment Tool (SWAT) model and cost data to develop a trade-off frontier of least cost of achieving nutrient reductions and the … corresponding locations of conservation practices. This approach was applied to the Raccoon River Watershed, which drains about 9 …

Survey gage station at the watershed outlet were used in the sensitivity analysis of SWAT model parameters as well as its … parameters among eight selected parameters when applying SWAT to the Maquoketa River watershed. Model calibration, facilitated by … initial hydrologic modeling analysis will facilitate future applications of SWAT to the Maquoketa River watershed for various …

The Raccoon River Watershed (RRW) in West-Central Iowa has been recognized as exporting some of the highest nitrate … has been constructed for the RRW that consists of the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model, the interactive SWAT (i_SWAT …. This paper presents the calibration and validation of SWAT for the streamflow, sediment losses, and nutrient loadings in …

The size, scale, and number of subwatersheds can affect a watershed modeling process and subsequent results. The … and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model with a geographic information system interface (AVSWAT) was applied to four Iowa … SWAT input data preparation requirements and simplify the interpretation of results without compromising simulation …

application fields with APEX and were then subsequently routed to the watershed outlet in SWAT, along with flows and pollutant … area was simulated in SWAT, which required translating the APEX subareas into SWAT hydrologic response units (HRUs …-predicted when precipitation data collected within the watershed during the 1999-2001 period were used to drive SWAT. Selection of …

robust interdisciplinary watershed modeling tool, as evidenced by international SWAT conferences, hundreds of SWAT …The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model is a continuation of nearly 30 years of modeling efforts conducted by … the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service. SWAT has gained international acceptance as a …

watershed scale. We also investigate the effects of stressors such as land use change, climate change, and choices in land … watershed in Rhode Island. Our key finding is that choices in land use and land management practices create tradeoffs across …

The ArcSWAT2009 model with an improved sub-model (SWAT-GC) was used to assess plant growth to evaluate sediment and … validated using measured data from January 2011 to August 2013. The results obtained with the SWAT-GC were compared with those … obtained with the standard model (SWAT) calibrated in situ. Daily performance of the calibrated SWAT model in simulating runoff …