Modeling of sediment yield from anjeni-gauged watershed, Ethiopia using swat model1

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 514-526

  Setegn, Shimelis ^a   Dargahi, Bijan ^b   Srinivasan, Ragahavan ^c   Melesse, Assefa ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anjeni; Hydrology; Sediment yield; Soil erosion; Streamflows; SUFI 2; SWAT; Watershed modeling

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN WATERS; ANNUAL AVERAGE; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; DISCRETIZATIONS; ETHIOPIA; LAND DEGRADATION; MANAGEMENT SCENARIOS; MODEL CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION; SEDIMENT YIELD; SEDIMENT YIELDS; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOL; SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION; STANDARD DEVIATION; SUBBASINS; SWAT MODEL; VALIDATION PERIODS; WATERSHED MODELING;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CALIBRATION; FORECASTING; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LANDFORMS; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL MECHANICS; SOILS; STREAM FLOW; WATER; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

HYDROLOGY; LAND DEGRADATION; METEOROLOGY; MODEL TEST; SEDIMENT YIELD; SLOPE; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION; STAKEHOLDER; STREAMFLOW; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHED;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 77954615297     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: 17521688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2010.00431.x     Document Type: Article

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