Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere Transfer Schemes

Water balance models have frequently been used to examine the surface runoff from watersheds. Some of these models, focused more on climate change, are called Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere Transfer Schemes (SVATs) (Vordsmarty and Peterson, 2000). These model simulations use different parameters such as vegetation cover, soil texture (different sizes of mineral particles), water-holding capacity of soils, surface roughness, and albedo (the fraction of light reflected by a body or surface), to make predictions on... 

Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere Transfer Schemes (SVATs) simulated models that use parameters such as vegetation cover, soil texture, water-holding capacity of soils, surface roughness, and albedo, to make predictions on soil moisture, runoff, evapotranspiration, and runoff. 

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