| Title: | Establishment and evaluation of the China Meteorological Assimilation Driving Datasets for the SWAT model (CMADS) |
| Authors: | Meng, X., H. Wang, C. Shi, Y. Wu and X. Ji |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Journal: | Water |
| Volume (Issue): | 10 |
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| Article ID: | 1555 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/w10111555 |
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| Model: | none |
| Broad Application Category: | data or component development |
| Primary Application Category: | data and/or component contribution to SWAT or SWAT+ |
| Secondary Application Category: | none |
| Watershed Description: | none |
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| Abstract: | We describe the construction of a very important forcing dataset of average daily surface
climate over East Asia—the China Meteorological Assimilation Driving Datasets for the Soil and Water
Assessment Tool model (CMADS). This dataset can either drive the SWAT model or other hydrologic
models, such as the Variable Infiltration Capacity model (VIC), the Soil and Water Integrated Model
(SWIM), etc. It contains several climatological elements—daily maximum temperature (C), daily
average temperature (C), daily minimum temperature (C), daily average relative humidity (%),
daily average specific humidity (g/kg), daily average wind speed (m/s), daily 24 h cumulative
precipitation (mm), daily mean surface pressure (HPa), daily average solar radiation (MJ/m2), soil
temperature (K), and soil moisture (mm3/mm3). In order to suit the various resolutions required
for research, four versions of the CMADS datasets were created—from CMADS V1.0 to CMADS
V1.3. We have validated the source data of the CMADS datasets using 2421 automatic meteorological
stations in China to confirm the accuracy of this dataset. We have also formatted the dataset so as to
drive the SWAT model conveniently. This dataset may have applications in hydrological modelling,
agriculture, coupled hydrological and meteorological modelling, and meteorological analysis. |
| Language: | English |
| Keywords: | CMADS; SWAT; East Asia; meteorological; hydrological |