Philip W. Gassman

TL;DR: The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model is a continuation of nearly 30 years of modeling efforts conducted by the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and has gained international acceptance as a robust interdisciplinary watershed modeling tool.

TL;DR: 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.

TL;DR: The SWAT-CUP tool as discussed by the authors is a semi-distributed river basin model that requires a large number of input parameters, which complicates model parameterization and calibration, and is used to provide statistics for goodness-of-fit.

TL;DR: This special collection presents 22 specific SWAT-related studies, most of which were presented at the 2011 SWAT Conference, and represents SWAT applications on five different continents, with the majority of studies being conducted in Europe and North America.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) was used to evaluate potential impacts from future land use and land cover change on the annual and seasonal water balance of the Raccoon River watershed in west-central Iowa.