| Title: | C-SWAT: The Soil and Water Assessment Tool with consolidated input files in alleviating computational burden of recursive simulations |
| Authors: | Yen, H., M. Ahmadi, M. J. White, X. Wang and J. G. Arnold |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Journal: | Computers & Geosciences |
| Volume (Issue): | 72 |
| Pages: | 221-232 |
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| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cageo.2014.07.017 |
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| Model: | C-SWAT |
| Broad Application Category: | computational approaches |
| Primary Application Category: | computational efficiency |
| Secondary Application Category: | data and/or component contribution to SWAT or SWAT+ |
| Watershed Description: | 611 km^2 Little Washita River Basin (LWRB) located in southwestern Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Calibration Summary: | |
| Validation Summary: | |
| General Comments: | - The majority of SWAT input files are consolidated into 13 integrated files in C-SWAT
- Parallelized Shuffled Complex Evolution algorithm is incorporated with C-SWAT
- Significant improvement in computational speed is achieved using C-SWAT
- C-SWAT is beneficial to large scale studies with potentially great number of data |
| Language: | English |
| Keywords: | SWAT; Auto-calibration; Consolidated inputs; Parallel processing; Shuffled complex evolution |