SWATGenXResearch
Everything on this platform is documented research: open national datasets with citable DOIs, an open accelerated modeling engine, and the coupled surface-water–groundwater methods behind them.
Data and code are released first — the manuscripts documenting each method carry an honest status label until they complete peer review.
Released, versioned, and citable — the datasets are the deliverable; the papers document the methods.
A national inventory of well lithology and hydraulics for the conterminous United States
A living CONUS well-lithology database harmonized from state agency sources — the subsurface layer that turns a watershed model into a groundwater model. Openly released and citable.
An open, depth-resolved inventory of measured soil PFAS concentrations
30,972 depth-resolved soil PFAS records from public agency reports across 41 states — the source-term layer for coupled PFAS modeling. Openly released and citable.
Two-way SWAT+/MODFLOW 6 exchange carrying PFAS through soil, aquifer, and stream in one mass balance.
Legacy groundwater sustains in-stream PFAS loads: the groundwater pathway via two-way coupled SWAT+/MODFLOW 6
A two-way daily coupling of SWAT+ and MODFLOW 6 carrying PFAS through both compartments — quantifying how much of the in-stream PFAS load arrives through legacy groundwater discharge rather than over the land surface.
Wurtsmith AFB: from contaminated soil to aquifer to stream, 1971–2024
A five-decade coupled reconstruction of a legacy AFFF site — reproducing the "clean water table over a contaminated aquifer" enigma with measured soil concentrations as the only source term.
The model-generation pipeline and the accelerated open SWAT+ engine that runs it.
Accelerating a regional hyper-resolution SWAT+ model without changing the science
A reproducible profiling-to-parallelization methodology and a routing-aware shared-memory wavefront: up to 5.33× at 24 threads, ~7× end-to-end versus our single-core baseline build (near 8× versus unmodified upstream), byte-identical to the serial engine at every thread count. Open source.
Automating High-Resolution SWAT+ Watershed Model Generation from NHDPlus HR and National Environmental Datasets
Vahid Rafiei (2026) · ORCID. Available as a preprint on SSRN (Elsevier's early-stage research platform) while under peer review.
The paper describes how SWATGenX turns public national data into inspectable, downloadable SWAT+ setups: NHDPlus HR hydrography, catchment preparation, HRU delineation, climate and soils inputs, QA checks, and the reproducible pipeline that assembles them at CONUS scale.
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The reproducibility repository also ships a CITATION.cff for automatic citation. Journal, volume, and DOI will be added on acceptance.
Further work — including vadose-zone PFAS transport (see the Wurtsmith case study above) — is in preparation. Track new work on the SSRN author page or the ORCID record.
Page updated 2026-06-30.
