1. General Model Information
Name: Soil Water Model
Acronym: SOILWAT
Main medium: terrestrial
Main subject: hydrology
Organization level: ecosystem
Type of model: not specified
Main application:
Keywords: soil layers, water, plant-canopy, interception, infiltration, evaporation, drainage
Contact:
W. Parton
W.K. Lauenroth
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Abstract:
The soilwat model simulates the flow of water through a plant canopy and
soil layers. Rainfall interception, infiltration of water into soil, rapid
and slow soil water drainage, and evaporation of water from the plant canopy
and the soil layers are simulated on a daily timestep. The model can treat an
arbitrary number of soil layers in each of which depth and soil type are
specified.
II. Technical Information
II.1 Executables:
Operating System(s): DOS
II.2 Source-code:
Programming Language(s): FORTRAN 4, SIMCOMP 3.0.
II.3 Manuals:
II.4 Data:
III. Mathematical Information
III.1 Mathematics
III.2 Quantities
III.2.1 Input
III.2.2 Output
IV. References
Parton, W.J.; 1978 :Abiotic section of ELM. In: G.S. Innis (Editor),Grassland Simulation Model. Ecological Studies 26. Springer-Verlag, New York.P.31-53.Lauenroth, W.K.; Urban, D.L.; Coffin, D.P.; Parton, W.J.; Shugart, H.H.;Kirchner, T.B.; Smith, T.M.; 1993 : Modelling vegetation structure-ecosystem process interactions across sites andecosystems. Ecologicl Modelling, 67.P.49-80.
V. Further information in the World-Wide-Web
VI. Additional remarks
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Tobias Gabele Wed Aug 21 21:44:50 CEST 2002