CoSWAT documentation¶
CoSWAT, the Community SWAT+ Model, is a global hydrological model built from regional SWAT+ models. The website at coswat.com shows its results on a map, offers its data for download and accepts improvements from the modelling community.
These pages explain how to use the website: finding and reading results on the map, preparing part of a model for calibration, and sending a calibration or observations back for review.
Under development
The website and these pages are being built. Each page describes what works today, and features that are still being built are marked as planned. The model version on offer is CoSWATv2.0.0, and results are published region by region as model runs finish.
Contents¶
- Getting started
- The pages of the website, accounts and the terms used throughout.
- Explore
- The map: adding layers, choosing a year, finding a place, reading values and sharing a view.
- Calibration and contributions
- Defining a slice of a model, preparing it for download, and contributing a calibration, observations or weather data.
- Data
- Downloads, and observed river flow.
- Accounts
- Getting an account, signing in and what each role can do.
- The model
- Model versions, regions, run periods and the results each run produces.
- Evaluation
- How model runs are compared with observed river flow: stations, metrics and comparisons.
- API
- Model results as JSON, for scripts and other applications.
- Reference
- Glossary, questions and changelog.
Model results in brief¶
Each model run simulates a run period that begins with warm-up years, which are left out of the results. The default run period is 1980 to 1986 with two warm-up years, so its maps cover 1982 to 1986. A run produces a map for each year and an annual average, in millimetres per year for water balance variables.
Background and citation¶
The About page of the website describes the model and the framework behind it, and gives the citation.