Evaluation of River Water Quality Simulations at a Daily Time Step-Experience with SWAT in the Axe Catchment, UK

Clean - Soil, Air, Water

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 43-54

  Glavan, Matjaž ^a   White, Sue ^b   Holman, Ian P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catchment modelling; Nitrate; Phosphorus; Sediment; Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT); Water quality

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; MODELING; NITRATE; PHOSPHORUS; RIVER BASIN; RIVER WATER; SEDIMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

AXE RIVER; ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 78751607599     PISSN: 18630650     EISSN: 18630669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clen.200900298     Document Type: Article

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