The Course Structure

The course is designed for five days’ duration devoted to SWAT set up including spatial and non-spatial data preparation, data input, model execution, and visualization and interpretation of results using QGIS interface and model calibration and validation using SWAT-CUP.

The course consists of online lectures supported by hands-on sessions on computers to cover both theory and practice in the right proportion. The course will be conducted as a two-way interaction with the participants so that the problems and experiences of participants from academia as well as field organizations are shared. Broadly, the following topics shall be covered in the course:

· Basics of Hydrological modelling

· Introduction to QGIS;

· Data requirement of SWAT;

· Hands-on sessions for preparing spatial datasets for SWAT using RS and QGIS

· SWAT theory and model applications;

· Preparation of non-spatial data

· Introduction to QSWAT interface; model set up;

· Sensitivity, calibration/validation and uncertainty analysis using SWAT-CUP-SUFI2;

· Visualization and interpretation of SWAT outputs.

· A Case Study of Snowmelt Runoff Modeling using SWAT

By the end of the course, the participants are expected to use the model on their own.