Deriving a dataset for agriculturally relevant soils from the Soil Landscapes of Canada (SLC) database for use in Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) simulations

• Published in: Earth System Science Data
• Main Authors: M. R. C. Cordeiro, G. Lelyk, R. Kröbel, G. Legesse, M. Faramarzi, M. B. Masud, T. McAllister
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2018
• Subjects: Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Geology; QE1-996.5; Canada; British Columbia; Peace River
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1673-2018; https://doaj.org/article/1c4d5cc402f0448db39982ae9a27bcd7

The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model has been commonly used in Canada for hydrological and water quality simulations. However, preprocessing of critical data such as soils information can be laborious and time-consuming. The objective of this work was to preprocess the Soil Landscapes of...