Módszerek összehasonlítása

	SWAT Modell	Általános Cirkulációs Modell
Tudományterület	Geofizika	Geofizika
Módszercsalád	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Keletkezés éve	1998	1975
Megalkotó	Jeff Arnold and others at USDA-ARS	Syukuro Manabe and Richard Wetherald
Típus	Process-based watershed and water quality simulation	Deterministic coupled atmosphere-ocean simulation
Alapmű	Arnold, J. G., Srinivasan, R., Muttiah, R. S., & Williams, J. R. (1998). Large area hydrologic modeling and assessment part I: Model development. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 34(1), 73-89.	Manabe, S., & Wetherald, R. T. (1975). The effects of doubling the CO2 concentration on the climate of a general circulation model. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 32(1), 3-15.
Alternatív nevek	SWAT	GCM, Global Climate Model
Kapcsolódó	3	3
Összefoglaló	The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) is a process-based watershed model that simulates the hydrological cycle, sediment transport, nutrient cycling, pesticide fate, and land management impacts across a watershed or large basin. Developed by Jeff Arnold and colleagues at USDA-ARS in 1998, SWAT has become a standard tool for evaluating non-point source pollution, assessing climate change impacts on water resources, and designing best management practices.	A General Circulation Model (GCM), also called a Global Climate Model, is a three-dimensional numerical representation of the Earth's atmosphere, oceans, ice, and land surface that simulates physical processes governing weather and climate. Pioneered by Manabe and Wetherald in 1975, GCMs are the primary tools for understanding past climate, projecting future climate change, and investigating climate sensitivity to greenhouse gases and other forcings.