OVERVIEW
Computer models have become increasingly important tools for analyzing complex problems involving water flow and contaminant transport in the soils and groundwater. This training workshop is designed to familiarize participants with the principles and analysis of watershed flows and transport
processes. The focus of the workshop will be especially on watershed modeling using SWAT. This workshop is intended for individuals with interest on modeling watershed processes.
About the SWAT model
The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) is a public domain model actively supported by the USDA Agricultural Research Service at the Grassland Soil and Water research laboratory in Temple, Texas, USA. The main purpose of the model is to predict the effects of management decisions on water, nutrients, sediments and pesticide yield with reasonable accuracy on large, ungauged river basins. It is a distributed model that simulates all previously mentioned constituents on a daily time step. SWAT is a river basin scale model developed to quantify the impact of land management practices in large, complex watersheds. SWAT defines hydrology by a specific list of parameters including interception, evapotranspiration, surface runoff, lateral flow, soil percolation and ground water flow as well as river routing processes.
Workshop Date:- 12-16, July , 2010
Website:- http://www.iitd.ac.in/events/Brochure-SWAT%20Workshops%20in%20India.pdf
