Watem-sedem

Welcome to WatEM/SEDEM

Hi there! This website holds the documentation for WaTEM/SEDEM and related projects. The WaTEM-SEDEM (or in short WS) is a model used to estimate erosion and overland sediment routing and transport to river. This page links to the several packages and codes used in the project. The project is subdivided in a number of smaller projects. The are shortly introduced in the sections below.

WaTEM/SEDEM

This project contains the WaTEM/SEDEM model itself: it contains all algorithms and formula’s originally developed by KU Leuven in the Pascal programming language.

Note that the model also includes an Curve Number (CN) extension to estimate run-off and sediment concentrations.

pycnws

This project is used to standardize and automate data processing and data formatting for any catchment (applied in Flanders) for the CN-WS core code. The package makes use of Python (via conda), SAGA-GIS and GDAL. The code and documentation for this project is currently under development.

R-factor

In this project, code is developed to compute the rainfall erosivity (R-factor). In short, the R-factor is a factor that quantifies the effect of rainfall on water erosion. This factor is used in CN-WS to compute values for the RUSLE equation.

Contact

For any question considering any of these projects, please contact us at cn-ws@omgeving.vlaanderen.be.

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