The WEPP watershed model: II. Sensitivity analysis and discretization on small watersheds

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 935-943

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

^a ASAE ^*  (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Discretization; Erosion; Hydrology; Modeling; Runoff; Sensitivity analysis; WEPP

Indexed keywords

DISCRETIZATION; HILLSLOPE LENGTH; MANNING'S COEFFICIENTS; WATER EROSION PREDICTION PROJECT (WEPP) MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EROSION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROLOGY; RUNOFF; SCOUR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHEAR STRESS; SOIL CONSERVATION;

WATERSHEDS;

EROSION; MODELING; WATERSHED;

ERODIBILITY; EROSION; MODEL; WATER EROSION; WATERSHED; WEPP;

EID: 0031195125     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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