Assessing climate change's impacts on hydrology using the SWAT model: a literature review
Wafae El Harraki, Mahmoud Zemzami
Abstract
ABSTRACT Many reviews, related to SWAT's applications, exist globally or focus on specific sub-regions or countries, such as India, Africa and the Mediterranean region or Southeast Asia. However, one of the frequent applications of SWAT that is gaining tremendous attention from researchers is climate change (CC)'s effect on streamflow and water management. Among the existing SWAT literature database to the date of this paper, barely 30% of articles are related to CC. As there is no any previous review that has focused specifically on this field of application of SWAT, this paper gives a thorough overview of some recent articles that have chosen SWAT for evaluating the impact of CC on catchments and aims to afford guidelines for new users of SWAT for this purpose. Hence, this study endeavors to give the main sources of climate data used in this sense and the framework adopted by previous researchers and points of attractiveness of SWAT, among the other hydrological models, and its latest development.