Incorporating variable source area hydrology into a curve-number-based watershed model

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 21, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 3420-3430

  Schneiderman, Elliot M ^a   Steenhuis, Tammo S ^b   Thongs, Dominique J ^a   Easton, Zachary M ^b   Zion, Mark S ^a   Neal, Andrew L ^b   Mendoza, Guillermo F ^a   Walter, M Todd ^b  

^a NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION   (United States)

^b Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Curve number; General Watershed Loading Function; Non point source pollution; Runoff; Variable source area hydrology; Watershed modelling

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; RUNOFF; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

CURVE NUMBER EQUATION; GENERAL WATERSHED LOADING FUNCTION; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT;

WATERSHEDS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; RUNOFF; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; WATERSHEDS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; PREDICTION; RAINFALL; RUNOFF; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

EID: 37249029898     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6556     Document Type: Article

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