Using a topographic index to distribute variable source area runoff predicted with the SCS curve-number equation

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 2757-2771

  Lyon, Steve W ^a   Walter, Todd M ^a   Gerard Marchant, Pierre ^a   Steenhuis, Tammo S ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Curve number; Runoff pediction; Topographic index; Variable source area hydrology

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; PROBABILITY; SOILS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; WATER QUALITY;

SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE CURVE-NUMBER (SCS-CN); SOIL MOISTURE ROUTING (SMR) MODELS; TOPOGRAPHIC INDEX; VARIABLE SOURCE AREA (VSA);

RUNOFF;

HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTANT SOURCE; RUNOFF; SOIL WATER; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER QUALITY;

APPALACHIANS; CATSKILL MOUNTAINS; DELAWARE BASIN; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 7444248990     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.1494     Document Type: Article

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