Author: Texas A&M University
Year of publication: No information
Available languages: English
Type of assessment: Not specified
Details: Broader scope with climate as one of the dimensions. Scale model used to simulate the quality and quantity of surface and ground water and predict the environmental impact of land use, land management practices and climate change
Format of assessment: Software
Estimated costs for conducting: Open source
Estimated duration of assessment: No information
To be carried out by whom: Multiple actors
Details: Mostly sector experts and scientists
Institutional scale of use: Local/community
Details: Small watershed to river basins
Assesment to be used by which target audience: Multiple actors
Details: Research community, local decision makers, project developers
Output: Report
Region of origin: North America
Developed by which sector: Science
Applied in practice: Yes
Geographic coverage in analysis: Worldwide
Potential geographic coverage: Worldwide
Sectors covered: Water sector, Agriculture
Method used: Quantitative model
Description of methodology: SWAT uses a two-level dissagregation scheme. A preliminary subbasin identification is carried out based on topographic criteria, followed by further discretization using land use and soil type considerations. Areas with the same soil type and land use form a Hydrologic Response Unit (HRU), a basic computational unit assumed to be homogeneous in hydrologic response to land cover change
Risk framework used: No explicit use of risk framework
Risk components incorporated: No information
Details: Not specified
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: Water scarcity, Changing precipitation patterns, Extreme rainfall, Flood
Source of required data: Secondary (available data is used)
Details: Data on elevation, land use, soils, weather (precipitaion and temperature), management decisions, as well as additional watershed info such as reservoirs. All inputs need to be SWAT-formatted input files
Temporal scale: Forward looking
Participatory elements: No
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: No information
Adressing uncertainty: Yes
Details: Specific to each study that uses and adjusts the SWAT tool, but sensitivity or uncertainty analysis possible
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: No information
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): No information
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: No
Usefulness for political purposes: Climate funds
Applied by whom: Multiple authors
Open access: Yes