Development and improvement of the simulation of woody bioenergy crops in the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 2018 Elsevier Ltd Quantifying Populus growth and the impacts on hydrology and water quality are important should it be widely planted. Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) tree growth algorithms and parameters for hybrid poplar in Midwestern US and cottonwood in Southern US were improved. Tree growth representation led to SWAT2012 code changes including a new leaf area parameter (TREED), new leaf area index algorithm, and leaf biomass algorithm. Simulated hybrid poplar LAI and aboveground woody biomass (PBIAS: 34 - 5%, NSE: 0.510.99, and R2: 0.720.99), and cottonwood aboveground biomass, runoff, sediment, and nitrate-N (PBIAS: 39 - 11%, NSE: 0.860.99, and R2: 0.930.99) from the modified SWAT were satisfactory. Improved algorithms, and parameter values and potential ranges for Populus were reasonable. Thus, the modified SWAT can be used for Populus biofeedstock production modeling and hydrologic and water quality response to its growth.

published proceedings

  • ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE

author list (cited authors)

  • Guo, T., Engel, B. A., Shao, G., Arnold, J. G., Srinivasan, R., & Kiniry, J. R.

citation count

  • 20

complete list of authors

  • Guo, Tian||Engel, Bernard A||Shao, Gang||Arnold, Jeffrey G||Srinivasan, Raghavan||Kiniry, James R

publication date

  • December 2019