OPTAIN CS10: Kråkstad SWAT+ Modelling Workflow

Moritz Shore (workflow author, modelling)
Csilla Farkas (lead modeller)
Christoph Schürz (modelling)
Doninika Krzeminska (measures & stakeholders)
Anne-Grete Buseth Blankenberg (measures & stakeholders)
Robert Barneveld (measures & mapping)
Attila Nemes (project lead)
..and with strong support of the OPTAIN core team

2025-02-28

Introduction

Please, note: this site is a WORK IN PROGRESS, with many things still Unfinished

The aim of page is to:

1. Document the process of setting up the SWAT+ and SWAP models for Kraakstad, Norway (Case study 10 / CS10)

2. Link and execute entire workflow in parallel with the documentation using Rmarkdown

3. Make the model setup process reproducible

4. Be a reference to the CS10 modelers, as well as other OPTAIN modelers.

If all goes well, the compiling of this GitBook will also compile the OPTAIN model setup in tandem, from source input files to final model setup (..and beyond!)

Figure 0.1: An Overview of the CS10 Watershed: Kraakstad

The model setup follows the OPTAIN modelling protocols for SWAP (Farkas et al. 2023) and SWAT+ (Schürz et al. 2022). We begin with SWAT+ and the input file preparation for SWATBuildR, in Section 1.

Useful links:

• NIBIO project website

• NIBIO GitLab hosting model files (restricted access)

• UFZ GitLab hosting OPTAIN related software and data (restricted access)

• OPTAIN project website

• OPTAIN Zenodo hosting various files and documents

• SWATbuildR (restricted), SWATfarmR, SWATdoctR (restricted), SWATplusR, SWATprepR (R-packages core to the OPTAIN workflow)

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References

Farkas, Csilla, Moritz Shore, Gökhan Cüceloglu, Levente Czelnai, Attila Nemes, Brigitta Szabó, Natalja Čerkasova, Rasa Idzelyté, and Sinja Weiland. 2023. “SWAP Field-Scale Modelling Protocol,” May. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.7907114.

Schürz, Christoph, Natalja Čerkasova, Csilla Farkas, Attila Nemes, Plunge, Michael Strauch, Brigitta Szabó, and Mikołaj Piniewski. 2022. “SWAT+ Modeling Protocol for the Assessment of Water and Nutrient Retention Measures in Small Agricultural Catchments,” December. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.7463395.