SWAT is a time-continuous, semi-distributed hydrological model that has been widely
used
in various hydrological studies across the world. SWAT+ is a restructured and
improved
version of the SWAT model. QSWAT+ and SWAT+ Editor are currently the only interfaces
for
setting up SWAT+ models.
Reproducibility of science has come under scrutiny recently (Marcus, 2015) as it has
been discovered that a large proportion of science is not reproducible (McNutt,
2014;
Vasilevsky et al., 2013). In hydrology, modelling work is often not reproducible
because
of missing details on model setup. This software uses a config, which is a settings
file, to build and run SWAT+ models. Users can share the config along with their
published works to promote transparency as all model options are well documented in
the
file. Sharing the config and data also allows others to reproduce the models from
scratch.
