Modelling climate and land-use change impacts with SWIM: lessons learnt from multiple applications

The Soil and Water Integrated Model (SWIM) is a continuous-time semi-distributed ecohydrological model, integrating hydrological processes, vegetation, nutrients and erosion. It was developed for impact assessment at the river basin scale. SWIM is coupled to GIS and has modest data requirements. Dur...

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Published inHydrological sciences journal Vol. 60; no. 4; pp. 606 - 635
Main Authors Krysanova, Valentina, Hattermann, Fred, Huang, Shaochun, Hesse, Cornelia, Vetter, Tobias, Liersch, Stefan, Koch, Hagen, Kundzewicz, Zbigniew W
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Taylor & Francis 03.04.2015
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Assessments
Basins
bassin versant
calage et validation
calibration and validation
climate change impact
climate models
crop yield
ecohydrological model
Erosion
floods
geographic information systems
glaciers
groundwater
Hydrology
impact des changements climatiques
impact des changements d'occupation des sols
land use change
land-use change impact
Modelling
modèle orienté processus
modèle écohydrologique
Nutrients
process-based model
river basin
snow
soil water
Vegetation
watersheds
wetlands
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Summary:The Soil and Water Integrated Model (SWIM) is a continuous-time semi-distributed ecohydrological model, integrating hydrological processes, vegetation, nutrients and erosion. It was developed for impact assessment at the river basin scale. SWIM is coupled to GIS and has modest data requirements. During the last decade SWIM was extensively tested in mesoscale and large catchments for hydrological processes (discharge, groundwater), nutrients, extreme events (floods and low flows), crop yield and erosion. Several modules were developed further (wetlands and snow dynamics) or introduced (glaciers, reservoirs). After validation, SWIM can be applied for impact assessment. Four exemplary studies are presented here, and several questions important to the impact modelling community are discussed. For which processes and areas can the model be used? Where are the limits in model application? How to apply the model in data-poor situations or in ungauged basins? How to use the model in basins subject to strong anthropogenic pressure? Editor D. Koutsoyiannis; Associate editor C. Perrin
Bibliography:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2014.925560
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ISSN:2150-3435
0262-6667
2150-3435
DOI:10.1080/02626667.2014.925560