How to view and change land use of HRU in textinout folder?

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Liem Nguyen Duy

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Jan 4, 2013, 10:56:16 AM1/4/13
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Dear all,

I am interested in assessing the impacts of land use change on water disharge and sediment in a watershed at HRU level.
But I do not know how to view and change land use of HRU in textinout folder.
Anyone can give me some ideas?

I am looking forward to hearing from you,

Thanks a lot,
Liem

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EmilyS

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Jan 4, 2013, 5:57:48 PM1/4/13
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Liem,

If you know which HRU's you are concerned with changing landuse types for, you can find the  *.hru file for that particular HRU in TxtInOut. The top line has an entry for "Luse:" after which the four-lettered landuse for that HRU follows and could be changed. 


What I have done in the past is open up the output.sub file in TxtInOut and pull out the water and sediment yield columns on a subbasin level.  I then set up a second model with all the same inputs and only a different landuse raster and run SWAT again. And then I pull the same two columns out and compute a percent change.  Additionally, I map the computed difference to a subbasin shapefile and look at the change visually.  I do not know if SWAT writes out the results on an HRU basis or not but I cannot find it. 

- EmilyS

Jim Almendinger

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Jan 4, 2013, 6:53:06 PM1/4/13
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To get HRU output, uncheck the "limit HRU output" box before running the model.  After running the model, select "Read SWAT Output" to read selected output files into an Access database (scenarios/default/tablesout).  Using queries in Access is MUCH easier than manipulating the text files, generally speaking. 
As for changing CN2 values, I tend to do it in the mgt1 table for selected HRUs (or for all of them if I'm doing initial calibration to get things in the right range).  I would generally not change the database values, though I do see that ArcSWAT seems to give you that option.  I don't know why that doesn't work -- but in any case I'd make copies of the original databases for use with future models before altering any values. 
-- Jim


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Mikhail Titov

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Jan 4, 2013, 11:37:02 AM1/4/13
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I am interested in assessing the impacts of land use change on water disharge and sediment in a watershed at HRU level.
But I do not know how to view and change land use of HRU in textinout folder.
Anyone can give me some ideas?
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