Landscape models for simulating water quality at point, field, and watershed scales

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1683-1693

  Srivastava, Puneet ^a   Migliaccio, Kati W ^b   Šimůnek, Jiri ^c  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Field; Hydrology; Model; Runoff; Scaling; TMDL; Water quality; Watershed

Indexed keywords

NONPOINT-SOURCE (NPS) POLLUTANTS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT MODELS; WATERSHED SCALES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RUNOFF; WATER QUALITY;

WATERSHEDS;

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DATA ACQUISITION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RUNOFF; SOFTWARE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; VADOSE ZONE; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

EID: 36248939828     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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