Water and nutrient balances in a large tile-drained agricultural catchment: A distributed modeling study

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2259-2275

  Li, H ^a,b   Sivapalan, M ^a,c,d   Tian, F ^c,e   Liu, D ^c,e  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENTS; ANNUAL RUNOFF; CHEMICAL PROCESS; DISTRIBUTED MODELING; DISTRIBUTED MODELS; GAIN INSIGHT; HILLSLOPES; HYDRAULIC CONDITIONS; ILLINOIS; INTRA-ANNUAL VARIABILITY; LATERAL LOADING; MODEL PREDICTION; MODEL RESULTS; NITRATE LOADINGS; NITROGEN STORAGES; NUTRIENT BALANCE; NUTRIENT CYCLE; PHOSPHORUS STORAGE; REPRESENTATIVE ELEMENTARY WATERSHED; RIVER BASINS; RIVER NETWORK; SATURATION EXCESS; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SUBSURFACE RUN-OFF; SURFACE RUNOFFS; TILE DRAINAGE; WATER NUTRIENT;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CATCHMENTS; CULTIVATION; FORECASTING; HYDRAULICS; LEACHING; PHOSPHORUS; RIVERS; RUNOFF; WATERSHEDS;

NUTRIENTS;

AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENT; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; DRAINAGE; MODEL TEST; NITRATE; NUTRIENT BUDGET; PHOSPHORUS; RIVER SYSTEM; RUNOFF; SOIL NITROGEN; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER BUDGET; WATERSHED;

ILLINOIS; SANGAMON RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78649340837     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-14-2259-2010     Document Type: Article

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