On the Ia - S relation of the SCS-CN method

Nordic Hydrology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 261-275

  Jain, M K ^a   Mishra, S K ^b   Babu, P Suresh ^c   Venugopal, K ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYDROLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

^c ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Agriculture Research Service; Curve number; Initial abstraction; Rainfall runoff modelling; SCS CN method

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; RUNOFF; STORMS;

AGRICULTURE RESEARCH SERVICE; INITIAL ABSTRACTION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELLING; SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE CURVE NUMBER (SCS-CN);

SOIL CONSERVATION;

AGRICULTURE; DATABASE; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 33746913113     PISSN: 00291277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2006.011     Document Type: Article

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