Description

Summary: SWAT,the Soil and Water Assessment Tool is a river basin, or watershed, scale model developed to predict the impact of land management practices on water, sediment and agricultural chemical yields in large complex watersheds with varying soils, land use and management conditions over long periods of time. [from the editors’ preamble]

This book gives an Overview of SWAT, ten peer-reviewed articles on SWAT applications, and tutorials on using SWAT in an open source GIS software, MWSWAT. The book comes with a DVD which includes theoretical documentation, data for several examples, the necessary software files, and the step-by-step tutorials. [Summary by record creator.]