Issues of diffuse pollution model complexity arising from performance benchmarking

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 647-662

  Hutchins, M G ^a   Dilks, C ^b   Davies, H N ^a   Deflandre, A ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aire; Benchmark; CASCADE; Catchment; Flow; Model; Nitrate; QUESTOR; SWAT; Ythan

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CATCHMENT; COMPLEXITY; DATA SET; FLOW MODELING; INTEGRATED APPROACH; NITRATE; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ABERDEENSHIRE; AIRE RIVER; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; YTHAN RIVER;

EID: 33846378407     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-11-647-2007     Document Type: Article

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