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Effects of Finer Scale Soil Survey and Land-Use Classification on SWAT Hydrological Modelling Accuracy in Data-Poor Study Areas
Patagonian Institute for the Study of Continental Ecosystems, IPEEC-CONICET-CENPAT, Puerto Madryn, Argentina
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Department of Agriculture, Society and Environment, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico
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National Council of Science and Technology, El Colegio de San Luis (CONACYT-COLSAN), San Luis Potosí, Mexico
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Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Bournemouth University, Dorset, United Kingdom
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National Water Commission, CONAGUA, Mexico City, Mexico
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Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), Barcelona, España
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Center for Demographic, Urban and Environmental Studies, El Colegio de México, A.C., Mexico City, Mexico
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Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES), The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
1 Patagonian Institute for the Study of Continental Ecosystems, IPEEC-CONICET-CENPAT, Puerto Madryn, Argentina
2 Department of Agriculture, Society and Environment, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico
3 National Council of Science and Technology, El Colegio de San Luis (CONACYT-COLSAN), San Luis Potosí, Mexico
4 Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Bournemouth University, Dorset, United Kingdom
5 National Water Commission, CONAGUA, Mexico City, Mexico
6 Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), Barcelona, España
7 Center for Demographic, Urban and Environmental Studies, El Colegio de México, A.C., Mexico City, Mexico
8 Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES), The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
The limited availability of high-quality spatial data often limits the development of hydrological modelling in developing countries. Hydrological models with data at different scales may generate large uncertainties in modelling outputs. This study analysed the accuracy of four SWAT built models that combine soil and land use/land cover (LULC) data at the scale of 1:250,000 and 1:100,000 in a basin of Mexico. SWAT model allowed determining that large-scale maps produced better results than data from small-scale. Sensitivity analysis with different soil data was less than LULC data. However, the small-scale can be used for exploratory purposes when testing SWAT performance.
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