Description

Hatarilabs presents the professional program to master SWAT+ (Soil Water Assessment Tool), which is a tool that allows the evaluation of soil and water for hydrographic basins based on Hydrological Response Units (HRU). SWAT+ is used to predict the long-term impact of land use on the generation of runoff, sediments, and nutrient transport, among others. In addition, because of its ability to include various models, such as water balance, and its full compatibility with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools, SWAT+ is extremely popular among professionals in water resources.

This program is designed to provide systematical learning from the most basic and general topics to intermediate and advanced topics, allowing the student to understand the various steps in developing hydrological models using the SWAT+ interface for QGIS. This program has a series of theoretical and practical concepts that allow the student to process spatial data, manage meteorological databases, build hydrological models, develop sensitivity analyses, and perform manual and automatic calibrations using versatile tools such as SWAT+ Toolbox, SQLite, and Python.

This program is developed in asynchronous mode that allows students to be more flexible in their schedule and enjoy of instructional materials during 06 months

 

Objectives

This program is designed to provide you with the following capabilities:

• Use the SWAT+ environment and QGIS.
• Manage the SWAT+ data entry mechanism and its databases.
• Perform excellent data processing.
• Manage meteorological variables for the model.
• Present the data obtained in QGIS and Python and compare the results with actual data.
• Apply SWAT+ in numerical modeling.

 

Content

The diploma is divided into 03 modules, each divided into 6 sessions developed.

The summarized content of every module is described below:

 

Module 01: Introduction to Hydrological Modeling with SWAT+ and QGIS

This module develops the key concepts to understand hydrological modeling using SWAT+ and QGIS. We will address introductory topics and review a pre-established model to understand the operation of SWAT + and the procedure for processing data required in a hydrological model.

• Session 01: Introduction to Hydrological Modeling
• Session 02: Components of SWAT+ Part I
• Session 03: Components of SWAT+ Part II
• Session 04: Components of SWAT+ Part III
• Session 05: Preparing spatial data for a model
• Session 06: Preparing tabular data for hydrological models

 

Module 02: Hydrological Modeling with SWAT+ and QGIS

The past sessions covered the introductory concepts and the operation of SWAT+. Now, we will develop a series of applied hydrological modeling exercises with daily precipitation data and spatial data at the basin scale

• Session 01: Model 1 – Construction
• Session 02: Model 1 – Simulation
• Session 03: Model 2 – Construction and simulation
• Session 04: Model 3 – Construction
• Session 05: Model 3 – Simulation
• Session 06: Model 3 – Analysis of results

 

Module 3: Advanced modeling applications with SWAT+, QGIS, and SQLite

This last section will validate, calibrate, and perform a model sensitivity analysis using various tools of SWAT+ Toolbox. We will evaluate a calibrated model’s hydrological and sediment balances and then create graphs by connecting the model database with Python and SQLite.

• Session 01: Manual calibration of a hydrological model
• Session 02: Automatic calibration tool in SWAT+ Toolbox
• Session 03: Sensitivity analysis and calibration in SWAT+ Toolbox
• Session 04: Validation and analysis of model results
• Session 05: Evaluation of outflows and sediment transport in SWAT+ with QGIS
• Session 06: Visualization of results with SQLite in Python

 

Trainer

Saul Montoya M.Sc.

Hydrogeologist – Numerical Modeler

Mr. Montoya is a Civil Engineer graduated from the Catholic University in Lima with postgraduate studies in Management and Engineering of Water Resources (WAREM Program) from Stuttgart University – Germany with mention in Groundwater Engineering and Hydroinformatics. Mr Montoya has a strong analytical capacity for the interpretation, conceptualization and modeling of the surface and underground water cycle and their interaction.

He is in charge of numerical modeling for contaminant transport and remediation systems of contaminated sites. Inside his hydrological and hydrogeological investigations Mr. Montoya has developed a holistic comprehension of the water cycle, understanding and quantifying the main hydrological dynamic process of precipitation, runoff, evaporation and recharge to the groundwater system.

Over the last 9 years Saul has developed 2 websites for knowledge sharing in water resources: www.gidahatari.com (Spanish) and www.hatarilabs.com (English) that have become relevant due to its applied tutorials on groundwater modeling, spatial analysis and computational fluid mechanics.