Modelling hydrology and water quality in the pre-alpine/alpine Thur watershed using SWAT

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 333, Issue 2-4, 2007, Pages 413-430

  Abbaspour, Karim C ^a   Yang, Jing ^a   Maximov, Ivan ^a   Siber, Rosi ^a   Bogner, Konrad ^b   Mieleitner, Johanna ^a   Zobrist, Juerg ^a   Srinivasan, Raghavan ^c  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b Bavarian Environmental Agency   (Germany)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; SUFI 2; SWAT; Uncertainty analysis; Water quality modelling; Watershed modelling

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WATER QUALITY;

SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOL (SWAT); UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATERSHED MODELING;

WATERSHEDS;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FLOW PATTERN; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RIVER DISCHARGE; TRANSPORT PROCESS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; RHINE RIVER; SWITZERLAND; THUR RIVER;

EID: 33845973772     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2006.09.014     Document Type: Article

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