The WEPP watershed model: I. Hydrology and erosion

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 921-933

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

^a ASAE ^*  (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SOIL EROSION RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Erosion models; Modeling; Soil erosion; Water quality; Watersheds; WEPP

Indexed keywords

WATER EROSION PREDICTION PROJECT (WEPP) MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EROSION; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOILS; WATER QUALITY;

WATERSHEDS;

EROSION; HYDROLOGY; INFILTRATION; WATER; WATERSHED;

HYDROLOGY; RUNOFF; WATER EROSION; WATERSHED; WEPP;

EID: 0031195116     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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