AG-WaMED Masterclass
Second edition: the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) for sustainable water management in the Mediterranean Area
20.11.2023 – 9.15 Italian Time
The project “Advancing non conventional water management for innovative climate-resilient water governance in the Mediterranean Area” (AG-WaMED) aims at providing innovative, evidence-based participatory management solutions to water scarcity governance that can be scaled at the Mediterranean level. In particular, the project will tackle the problem of water scarcity by including Non Conventional Waters (NCW) (wastewater, runoff water harvesting, desalination) among the available resources to be included in water governance policies.
The use of modeling tools for agricultural watersheds is of fundamental importance for the sustainable management of water (and soil) resources. The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT – https://swat.tamu.edu/) was chosen by the AG-WaMED team to model agricultural watersheds in the Mediterranean area, due to its flexibility and to the multiple processes it can model (including erosion, water quality dynamics, and crop growth). In this framework, a training Masterclass on the SWAT model will be organized, in order to demonstrate the capabilities of the model and to showcase its application in the project.
The Masterclass will be held on the Google Meets platform and the link will be sent to all attendants who registered for the event.
In particular, the SWAT+ version of the model will be demonstrated. Attendees interested in following the technical part of the Masterclass by working on the model can download it at: https://swat.tamu.edu/software/plus/.
For more information: https://agwamed.eu/
Registration to the Masterclass: https://forms.gle/yRaXTPGPSCHGZaEJ9
Program:
9.15-9.30: Introduction to the project
9:30-10:15: Setting up the SWAT+ model
Lorenzo Villani, Ismail Bouizrou, Giulio Castelli – University of Florence
10:30-11:15: Calibration and validation of the SWAT+ model
Lorenzo Villani, Ismail Bouizrou, Giulio Castelli – University of Florence
11:30-12:15: Application of SWAT models in the dry Mediterranean Area
Fethi Abdelli, Mohamed Ouessar – IRA Medenine
