An enhanced and automated approach for deriving a priori SAC-SMA parameters from the soil survey geographic database

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 219-231

  Zhang, Yu ^a   Zhang, Ziya ^a,b   Reed, Seann ^a   Koren, Victor ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrology; Model; NLCD; Parameter; SAC SMA; SSURGO

Indexed keywords

AREAS OF INTERESTS; AUTOMATED APPROACH; DATA SETS; GEOGRAPHIC DATABASE; HYDROLOGIC MODELING; INTERMEDIATE PRODUCT; LAND COVER; NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICES; NLCD; OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARES; PARAMETER; PARAMETER GENERATORS; POST-PROCESSOR; PREPROCESSORS; RAINFALL ANALYSIS; SAC-SMA; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL TEXTURES; SSURGO; STATSGO; THIRD COMPONENT;

AUTOMATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HYDROLOGY; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURVEYS; WATER;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

DATABASE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAND COVER; SOFTWARE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURVEY; SOIL TEXTURE;

EID: 78751628829     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2010.05.016     Document Type: Article

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