Water quality modeling for the Raccoon River watershed using SWAT

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 479-493

  Jha, Manoj Kumar ^a   Gassman, Philip Walter ^a   Arnold, Jeffrey G ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Management practices; Modeling; Nutrients; Raccoon River watershed; SWAT; Water quality

Indexed keywords

MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; RACCOON RIVER WATERSHED;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RIVERS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATERSHEDS;

WATER QUALITY;

CALIBRATION; CROP ROTATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAND USE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; POLLUTION CONTROL; SEDIMENT YIELD; STREAMFLOW; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

IOWA; NORTH AMERICA; RACCOON BASIN; UNITED STATES;

PROCYON; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 34347248422     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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