2014 Brazil SWAT Conference Material

July 30

Inaugural Session

Inauguration Representative from UFPE and UFRPE
Welcome Address Prof. Dra. Suzana Montenegro, UFPE, Brazil
Keynote Speaker Dr. Javier Tomasella, CEMADEN-INPE, Brazil
Model Development Dr. Jeffrey G. Arnold, USDA-ARS, USA
Closing Dr. Raghavan Srinivasan, Texas A&M University, USA

Session A1: Large Scale Applications

Michael Strauch Setting up SWAT for the Upper Amazon
Celso B. M. Ribeiro Parameterization of physical and climatic characteristics in the Amazon basin for hydrological simulation with SWAT model
Ina Pohle Coping with challenges in the application of SWIM in a heavily managed lowland region in Central Europe
Philip Gassman The SWAT Literature Database: Overview of Database Structure and Key SWAT Literature Trends

Session A2: Hydrology

Pierluigi Cau The SWAT model and a web-based information system to assess the water balance of Sardinia (Italy)
Nadia Bernardi Bonuma Hydrologic assessment in a Brazilian forest watershed using SWAT model.
Sofia Beatriz Havrylenko Agricultural drought analysis in the Arrecifes basin (Pampas region, Argentina) using the SWAT model
Raghavan Srinivasan Hydrology of Tigris river and its tributaries contributing to Hawizeh marsh

Session A3: Environmental Applications

Ordilei Aparecido Gaspar de Melo Environmental modeling and representation of the dynamics of environmental systems
Ruy de Aguiar Araújo Júnior Slope Analyses in Watersheds using SWAT
Laís Thomazini Oliveira Calibration of the SWAT model for a watershed in Aracruz, ES, with the predominant land use eucalyptus
Robertson Fontes Júnior Impact of Land Use changes on Runoff in a Representative Basin in the Semiarid of Pernambuco State Using the SWAT Model

Session B1: Climate Change Applications

Elham Rouholahnejad Water resources of Black Sea Basin under changing climate
Abdouramane Gado Djibo Neural network for Seasonal Rainfall and Streamflow forecasting for West Africa: case of the Sirba basin
Jianzhong Lu Hydrological Response to Climate Change based on SWAT Model validated by Extreme Climatic Conditions in Fuhe River Basin of Poyang Lake, China
Howard Van Meer Hydrological Response of a Mountainous Catchment to Different Climate Scenarios

Session B2: Model Development

Katrin Bieger Introduction to the new modular SWAT code: The input file structure explained using the example of the Little River Experimental Watershed, USA
Shiv Prasher Development and evaluation of SWATDRAIN model to simulate surface and subsurface runoff
José Miguel Sanchez Perez Water Exchange Between River Water and Groundwater in the floodplain of the Garonne River with SWAT model
Sabine Sauvage Trace metals transfer in rivers: a semi-empirical formulation to describe a complex sorption – desorption process to be implemented in SWAT model.

Session B3: Hydrology

Henrique dos Santos Ferreira Projeção de cenários de uso e cobertura da terra e sua influência no escoamento superficial com utilização do modelo Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) em ambientes semiáridos
João Henrique Macedo Sá Analysis of the Rainfall Interception Model Used in Swat
Luis Edgar Montenegro Terrazas Analysis of the results produced by weather generators, in hydrologic design of hydraulic structures for water use and in extreme events
Everton Barbosa da Luz Climate Change Applications in Recife

Session C1: Sensitivity Calibration and Uncertainty

Haw Yen A Framework for Incorporation of Alternative Uncertainty Sources Using the SWAT Model
Danielle de Almeida Bressiani Searching for better model performance and reduced optimization time: different calibration methods on different watershed locations
Romain Lardy Calibration of simulation platforms including highly interweaved processes: the MAELIA multi-agent platform
Alexandre Soares Calibration of SWAT Model in a Small Watershed by Means of Measured Streamflow and Suspended Sediment Data

Session C2: Hydrology

Xiaohua Dong Investigating the spatial scale effects on runoff simulation by using SWAT Model
José Guimarães Carvalho Neto Application of SWAT model for streamflow simulation in the Una River Basin, Northeast of Brazil
Ricardo Minoti Assessment of the applicability of the SWAT model to simulate the streamflow in a rural catchment in the Federal District (Brazil)
Waldenio Gambi de Almeida A flow forecast system for hydroelectric production

Session C3: Environmental Applications

Eberval Marchioro Sediment Yield Modeling Using an Alternative Environmental Scenario in Northwestern Rio de Janeiro – Brazil
Cleene Lima Experimental and Simulated Runoff by the Curve Number Model for Cassava Cropping Under Different Agricultural Practices
Teresa Cristina Pissarra Territorial Planning in River Uberaba’s Watershed, Mg, Brazil
Jonathan Mota da Silva The hydrological environmental services of Permanent Preservation Areas (PPA): a case study with numerical modeling in the Ribeirão das Posses watershed

July 31

Session D1: Hydrology

Carlos Galvão SWAT's hydro-sedimentological simulations for the Brazilian semi-arid
Djesser Sergio Hydrological Modeling of Cubatão Do Sul Catchment Using the Swat Model – Soil and Water Assessement Tool
Kim Loi Nguyen Assessing Water Availability in PoKo catchment using SWAT model, KonTum province, Vietnam
Teresa Cristina Pissarra Analysis of the São Lourenço watershed in Matão - SP using ArcSWAT

Session D2: Large Scale Applications

Calvin Creech Anthropogenic Impacts to the Sediment Budget of the São Francisco River Navigation Channel using SWAT
Hagen Koch Modelling of water availability and water management for the São Francisco Basin, Brazil
Philip Gassman Hydrologic, Water Quality and Crop Productivity Impacts of Climate Change in the Ohio-Tennessee River Basin
Mauricio E. Arias Coupling SWAT with land cover and hydropower models for sustainable development in the Mekong Basin

Session D3: Climate Change Applications

Indrajeet Chaubey Watershed scale environmental and biodiversity sustainability analysis of land use change and climate change using SWAT model
Javier Osorio Use of SWAT for optimizing irrigation strategies for sugarcane production on the Island of Maui, Hawaii.
Abelardo Montenegro Characterization of dry and rainy years in the Alto do Ipanema Basin using the Quantile Method.
Hamidreza Solaymani Osbooei IWRM; A Goal-Based Performance Approach in Formulation of Adaptation to Climate Change in Karkheh Basin, Iran

Session E1: Environmental Applications

Bloodless Dzwairo Application of SWAT to water quality modelling in the Rietspruit sub-basin of South Africa
Antönio Heriberto de Castro Teixeira Large Scale Energy Balance in the Juazeiro Municipality, Brazil
Yaobin Meng A Model for Heavy Metal Dynamics Coupled with SWAT and Its Application in Liuyang River Upstream Basin in China
Eduardo Mario Mendiondo On contrasting field evidences of water quality to perform physically-based SWAT simulations in challenging Brazilian biome under change

Session E2: Database and GIS Application and Development

José Alberto Fernandez Monteiro Comparison between Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) weather data and data from meteorological stations in Brazil to evaluate the suitability of CFSR data for SWAT
Venkatesh Merwade Spatio-temporal visualization for SWAT outputs using SWATShare
Michael Strauch Minimizing spatial error in HRU aggregation
Narendra Kumar Tiwary Web-based Real Time Flood Forecasting using SWAT model

Session E3: Sediment, Nutrients, and Carbon

Alineaurea Silva Availability of crop residues and soil fertility in communities Pontal Project, Petrolina-PE, in the dry season; and Chemical characterization of agricultural waste found in communities Lajedo, Amargosa and Vira beju in Petrolina-PE during the drought period
Alineaurea Silva Chemical characterization of agricultural waste found in communities Lajedo, Amargosa and Vira beju in Petrolina-PE during the drought period.
Laís Thomazini Oliveira Key Factors That Influence Water Quality in Watersheds with Eucalyptus Plantation

Session F1: Climate Change Applications

Boini Narsimlu Effect of climate change on hydrological regimes of Sind River Basin, India using SWAT Model
Isabela Iensen Simulation of green and blue water impacts caused by climate changes in Apucaraninha River watershed, Southern Brazil
Danielle de Almeida Bressiani Climate change impacts on the streamflow of a semi-arid watershed, Northeast Brazil
Tue (Minh) Vu Drought Assessment of future stream flow over the Sesan river basin in Vietnam

Session F2: EPIC/APEX Modeling System

Claire Baffaut Multi-site evaluation of APEX for crop and grazing land in the Heartland region of the US
Jaehak Jeong Improvement of the Variable Storage Coefficient Method with Water Surface Gradient as a Variable
Robin Taylor Estimating plant available water for general crop simulations in ALMANAC/APEX/EPIC/SWAT
Susan Wang Integrating uncertainty in model parameters, input, and model structure in watershed modeling

Session F3: Hydrology

M. Rafee Majid Hydrological Impact of Large Scale Conversion of Rubber to Oil Palm Plantation
Tássia Mattos Brighenti Water Balance Estimation in Rio Negrinho Basin, Southern Brazil.
Gilbert Nyageikaro Nyandwaro Modelling Runoff with Satellite Data
Jose Miguel Sanchez Perez The role of the alluvial floodplain to modeling water discharge using SWAT model in the Amazon catchment

Session G: Poster

Cristyano Ayres Machado Water Production in River Basin Siriri-Sergipe
Christiane Brazão Sensitivity analysis of soils parameters and their influences on streamflow simulation in a small watershed, Northwest RJ, Brazil
Christiane Brazão The influence of different land cover and land use on hydrological response of Barro Branco Watershed, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
José Guimarães Carvalho Neto Application of SWAT Model to Evaluate the Influence of Bank Vegetation on Runoff and Sediment Yield in the Basin of Siriri River, Sergipe
José Guimarães Carvalho Neto Assessment of runoff in the Tapacurá River Basin (Pernambuco state, Brazil) using SWAT model
Kássia Castro Impacts of a specific soil database on streamflow simulation with SWAT in an experimental rural catchment of the Brazilian savanna
Ygor Cristiano Brito Morais Análise do balanço hídrico sequencial em área de Caatinga
Marcio da Silva Santos Morphometric characterization and precipitation data in watersheds using SWAT model for apply better practices management
Pedro dos Santos Ferreira Aplicação do modelo SWAT para simulação dos impactos das mudanças climáticas sobre a vazão do rio Pontal no estado de Pernambuco
Matheus Durães Calibration and validation of SWAT hydrological model for Sapucaí river Basin, Brazil
Josimar Fernandes Use of the SWAT Model for Evaluation of Flow and Runoff in Hydroelectric Plant of Xingo
Joanna Gebala The impact of temporary data uncertainty on SWAT calibration results
Antonio Leal SWAT applications in eastern Amazonia: A case study of the Acará Mirim and Bujaru river basin in State of Pará, Brazil.
Janice Leivas Spectral response of winter maize producers mesoregions
Ali Najafinejad Simulating Discharge and Sediment Production Using SWAT in Chehelchai Watershed, Golestan Province, Iran
Vinícius Augusto de Oliveira Assessment of the current soil erosion in Piranga River Basin, Minas Gerais state
Viviane Pedroso Gomes Utilização Do Modelo Swat Para Análise de Cenários Hipotéticos Na Bacia Hidrográfica Do Rio Brígida No Estado de Pernambuco
Teresa Cristina Pissarra Hydrologic Modeling in Ribeirão Padua Diniz Watershed, in Northwest São Paulo, Brazil.
Rogerio Resende Martins Ferreira The Soil Water Assessment Tool to estimate the spatial and temporal patterns of soil erosion in the Vertentes do Rio Grande Watershed, Minas Gerais State, Brazil
José Miguel Sanchez-Pérez Assessment of climate changes impacts on the hydrological cycle of the Garonne watershed.
Sabine Sauvage Modeling of the hydrology and nitrogen fluxes in a semi-arid catchment area by SWAT model:the Tafna River in the North-West of Algeria
Ana Silva Assessment of streamflow responses to different land use and land cover changes in a mountainous area of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Janaina Silva Evaluation of land uses for Piabanha River watershed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil using SWAT
Carlos Silva Dambroz SWAT application for Santa Maria of Vitória watershed, at Espírito Santo (ES), Brazil
Hiroaki Somura Application of SWAT to Lake Shinji watershed for estimating nutrient loadings from surrounding river basins
Hamil Uribe Modeling of the Cachapoal river watershed as a tool to study precipitation change impacts on water availability for irrigation
João Villela Simulation of Surface Runoff and Sediment Yield at Itaqueri River Watershed, São Paulo State, Brazil
Dan Yu The modification of subdaily SWAT model and its application in Qingjiang river basin

August 1

Session H1: Environmental Applications

Amilcare Porporato A statistically consistent determination of the antecedent soil moisture condition (retention parameter) of the SCS method
Teresa Cristina Pissarra Erosion Prediction using SWAT model in Córrego Tijuco Watershed, São Paulo State, Brazil; and Modeling of Sheet Erosion in Watersheds Using GIS: A Case Study of Watershed of River Uraim, Pará, Brazil
Teresa Cristina Pissarra Modeling of Sheet Erosion in Watersheds Using GIS: A Case Study of Watershed of River Uraim, Pará, Brazil
Leandro de Almeida Salles Impacts of using different soil databases on streamflow simulation in the Pipiripau river basin

Session H2: Sediment, Nutrients, and Carbon

Ricardo Figueiredo Hydrobiogeochemical fluxes and its relation to land use changes at small catchments in the Marapanim River Basin, Pará state, Brazil
Carlos Tornquist SWAT Modeling at Marrecas Watershed in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Joanna Gebala Seasonal variability of nutrients loads discharged into the Baltic Sea

Session I1: Model Development

Alexander Strehmel Towards an Improvement of the Water Balance on Steep Slopes - Development of a Correction Algorithm of the Runoff Curve Number for Slope Angles up to 100%
Nicola Fohrer Improving the groundwater process representation by using SWAT3S and a multi-metric based model evaluation
Charles Cheruiyot SWAT Modeling of Runoff Pollution Load in Sondu Watershed, Lake Victoria Basin

Session I2: Climate Change Applications

Howard Van Meer Modelling climate change scenarios in a scarcely gauged lowlands catchment
Venkata Reddy K. Impact of Climate Change on water resources of USDA- ARS experimental watershed
Anne Gädeke Comparing the eco-hydrological model SWIM to conceptually different hydrological models in climate change impact assessments focussing on low flows
Hong Yang Interactive Fuzzy Multiple Goal Linear Programming for Agricultural Land-use Planning under Drought Conditions – A case study for the Karkheh River Basin in Iran

Session J1: Environmental Applications

Danielle de Almeida Bressiani Effects of Atlantic Forest Patches on Water-Regulation Ecosystem Services
Abelardo Montenegro Hydrological Modelling in Representative Catchments in Brazil Using the SWAT Model: the Experience of the REHIDRO Network
Ganga Ram Maharjan Application of SWAT: Assessing environmental efficiency of various land use scenarios in Haean catchment, South Korea

Session J2: Large Scale Applications

Micahel White Development of Sediment and Nutrient Export Coefficients for US Ecoregions.
Antônio Heriberto de Castro Teixeira Spatial Distribution of Corn Water Requirements in the São Paulo State, Brazil; and Characterization of the Wine Grape Thermo-Hydrological Conditions in the Brazilian Semi-Arid Region
Antônio Heriberto de Castro Teixeira Characterization of the Wine Grape Thermo-Hydrological Conditions in the Brazilian Semi-Arid Region

Closing Discussions

Closing Discussions