Ecological and Economic Impacts of Land Use and Climate Change on Coastal Food Webs and Fisheries project SWAT-MODFLOW model of the Suwannee River

This resource contains the SWAT-MODFLOW model for the Suwannee River in the Southeastern United States, which was used in the Ecological and Economic Impacts of Land Use and Climate Change on Coastal Food Webs and Fisheries project. This project was funded by the National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine Gulf Research Program (Grant No. 200011709) to evaluate how basin-wide changes in land/water use and a changing climate will influence the quality of natural resources in the Suwannee River estuary, which supports several imperiled species, multimillion-dollar fisheries, aquaculture, and a tourism economy (https://waterinstitute.ufl.edu/research/featured-projects/ecological-and-economic-impacts-of-land-use-and-climate-change-on-coastal-food-webs-and-fisheries/) The modeling framework implemented in this resource, SWAT-MODFLOW, couples the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) to the U.S. Geological Survey modular finite-difference flow model (MODFLOW) to produce an integrated surface-groundwater model (https://swat.tamu.edu/software/swat-modflow/) Within SWAT-MODFLOW, SWAT handles most surface and soil processes, MODFLOW handles groundwater processes, and both models interact to simulate stream flows.