Testing a river basin model with sensitivity analysis and autocalibration for an agricultural catchment in SW Finland

Agricultural and Food Science

Volumn 18, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 428-439

  Tattari, Sirkka ^a   Koskiaho, Jari ^a   Bärlund, Ilona ^a,b   Jaakkola, Elina ^a  

^a FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autocalibration; Discharge; Nutrients; Sediment loading; Sensitivity; Swat modeling; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 73349113989     PISSN: 14596067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.23986/afsci.5966     Document Type: Article

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