Uncertainty analysis of hydrologic and water quality predictions for a small watershed using swat2000

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 229-238

  Sohrabi, T M ^a   Shirmohammadi, A ^b   Chu, T W ^b   Montas, H ^b   Nejadhashemi, A P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Latin hypercube sampling; Monte Carlo; Nonpoint pollution; Nutrient; SWAT2000; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642323755     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: 15275930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/714044368     Document Type: Article

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