[GRASS-user] Status of SWAT/GRASS interface?

[Nikos Alexandris]

On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 11:30 -0800, Dylan Beaudette wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Nikos Alexandris
> <nikos.alexandris at felis.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> > Hi Hydro-Experts!
> >
> > I got a mail from a friend (also a student) in which he is expressing an
> > interest about the SWAT model. I've read about the SWAT/GRASS interface
> > [1].
> >
> > What's the practical status of using GRASS with respect to (a) this
> > model, (b) hydrological and soil modelling in general?
> >
> > My warmest greetings, Nikos
> >
> > [1] http://www.brc.tamus.edu/swat/soft_model.html (SWAT98.1)
> >
> 
> Hi Nikos, There may be some here at UC Davis that are interested. I'll
> forward this on to them.
> 
> One thing I have noticed about swat is that it uses very
> annoying-to-parse soil description files. Hopefully they will switch
> to something like XML in the future... I was thinking about writing an
> R driver to parse the files, but since I do no directly use SWAT I
> cannot justify the time.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dylan

Thank you for forwarding this Dylan.

Best regards, Nikos