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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 May 28.
Published in final edited form as: J Adv Model Earth Syst. 2021 May 28;13(6):10.1029/2020ms002284. doi: 10.1029/2020ms002284

Table 1.

Summarized Information of the Input Data Used in the SWAT Model

Data-set Description of data Source of data

Elevation 90 meter digital elevation model USGS (2016)
Soil 1:250,000 STATSGO soil map USDA-NRCS (2013)
Land use Assignment of crop rotations or other land use based on Cropland Data Layers data from 2008 to 2009 USDA-NASS (2016)
Weather Historic daily precipitation, maximum temperatures, and minimum temperatures from 1,721 NWS stations NCDC (2016)
Point sources Regression of population and SPARROW model outputs Schwarz et al. (2006)
Fertilizer input Nitrogen and phosphorus rates applied in corn, soybean, spring wheat and winter wheat USDA-NASS (2017)
Tillage practices No-till, mulch till, reduced till, and conventional till practices Baker (2011)
Reservoirs Reservoirs with maximum storage larger than 25,000 acre feet USACE (2012)

Abbreviation: SWAT, Soil and Water Assessment Tool.