Comparison of methods for estimating sediment and nitrogen loads from a small agricultural watershed

Canadian Biosystems Engineering / Le Genie des biosystems au Canada

Volumn 49, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Zamyadi, A ^a   Gallichand, J ^a   Duchemin, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b Institut de recherche et de developpement en agroenvironnement   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agricultural watershed; Load estimation; Nitrogen; Sediment; Water sampling

Indexed keywords

MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

AGRICULTURAL WATERSHED; LOAD ESTIMATION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERROR (RMSE);

SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

EID: 38749133352     PISSN: 14929058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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