Landuse and Management

There are several SWAT+ files that control the simulation of land use and management. The file landuse.lum summarizes the main land use information and references several other files that specify the details:

• plant.ini stores information about the plants growing in a rotation or plant community,

• management.sch is used to schedule management operations by heat units or dates and/or to list the decision tables to use for scheduling and conditioning management operations,

• lum.dtl contains the land use and management decision tables,

• cntable.lum lists typical Curve Number values for different land use types,

• cons_practice.lum lists the USLE P values and slope lengths for various conservation practices,

• ovn_table.lum lists overland Manning's n values for different tillage and land cover types.