Soil and water assessment tool (SWAT) model: Current developments and applications

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1423-1431

  Douglas Mankin, K R ^a   Srinivasan, R ^b   Arnold, J G ^c  

^a Kansas State University   (United States)

^b Texas A M University   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrologic modeling; Hydrology; SWAT; Water quality; Watershed

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATED TOOL; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT; CRITICAL APPLICATIONS; HYDROLOGIC MODELING; LANDSCAPE SCALE; MODEL PARAMETERS; MODEL PERFORMANCE; PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS; POLLUTANT SOURCES; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOL; STREAM ROUTING; SWAT; SWAT MODEL;

LANDFORMS; RESEARCH; SOILS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

CALIBRATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MODEL TEST; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SOIL NUTRIENT; STREAMFLOW; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

EID: 78149364221     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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