The WEPP watershed model: III. Comparisons to measured data from small watersheds

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 945-952

  Liu, B Y ^b   Nearing, M A ^a,b,d   Baffaut, C ^b   Ascough II, J C ^a,c  

^a ASAE ^*  (United States)

^b NATIONAL SOIL EROSION RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrology; Modeling; Runoff; Soil erosion; Watersheds; WEPP

Indexed keywords

TOPOGRAPHY; WATER EROSION PREDICTION PROJECT (WEPP) MODEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EROSION; HYDROLOGY; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTS; SOIL CONSERVATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

WATERSHEDS;

EROSION; MODELING; TOPOGRAPHY; WATERSHED;

RUNOFF; WATER EROSION; WATERSHED; WEPP;

EID: 0031195073     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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