{"id":9077,"date":"2026-09-30T12:03:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lynxee.consulting\/?p=9077"},"modified":"2026-10-06T13:54:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T13:54:46","slug":"__trashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lynxee.consulting\/en\/__trashed\/","title":{"rendered":"EUROPE: New version of SWAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A new version of the <\/span><b>SWAN model (v5.3)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, used to incorporate spray drift and runoff mitigation measures for refined surface water exposure calculations (FOCUS Step 4), was released online in late September.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This version introduces various improvements and fixes, and includes a revised modelling configuration for runoff mitigation measures using the <\/span><b>VFSMOD module<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The main updates of version 5.3 are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Update of VFSMOD to version 4.5.2, representing a major revision of the VFSMOD configuration and enabling significant runtime reductions depending on project and system configuration;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Improved reliability, performance, and user interface, notably through the migration to<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> .NET 8;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enhanced \u2018batch mode\u2019 allowing multiple Step 4 calculations in parallel.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Several limitations in the use of VFSMOD persist in this version, particularly for certain events involving very wide buffer zones and very low runoff (this issue is expected to be resolved with a future VFSMOD update), as well as for projects involving multiple soil metabolites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>To download:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu\/projects\/swan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">SWAN 5.3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Lynxee consulting<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2019s team is at your disposal to answer your questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Contact us!<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/lynxee.consulting\/en\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/lynxee.consulting\/en\/contact\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Photo credit:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Ben_Kerckx\/pixabay<\/span><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new version of the SWAN model (v5.3), used to incorporate spray drift and runoff mitigation measures for refined surface water exposure calculations (FOCUS Step 4),<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":9075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[320,723,567,319],"class_list":["post-9077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regulation","tag-focus-en","tag-mitigation-measures","tag-modelling-en","tag-surface-water"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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