Spatial averaging of land use and soil properties to develop the physically-based green and ampt parameters for HEC-1

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 525-535

  Smemoe, Christopher M ^a   Nelson, E James ^a   Zhao, Bing ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b Flood Control District of Maricopa   (United States)

Author keywords

Drainage; Forest hydrology; Geographic information systems; HEC, the Hydrologic Engineering Center; HEC 1, a hydrologic modeling software program developed by the Hydrologic Engineering Center; Modeling; Surface water hydrology; Watershed management

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HYDROLOGY; LAND USE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RAIN; RUNOFF;

NON-AUTOMATED METHOD; RAINFALL LOSS PARAMETERS;

SOILS;

GIS; LAND USE; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SOIL DRAINAGE;

EID: 1642396664     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2003.07.001     Document Type: Article

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