Evaluation of three daily rainfall generation models for SWAT

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1697-1711

  Watson, B M ^a   Srikanthan, R ^b   Selvalingam, S ^a   Ghafouri, M ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hydrologic model; Rainfall generation; Stochastic model; SWAT; Water balance

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; HYDROLOGY; LAND USE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RUNOFF; SOILS; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; WATER ANALYSIS;

HYDROLOGIC MODELS; RAINFALL GENERATION; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOLS (SWAT); WATER BALANCE;

RAIN;

HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAND USE CHANGE; RAINFALL; WATER BUDGET;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 28944435014     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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