Modeling sediment and nitrogen export from a rural watershed in Eastern Canada using the soil and water assessment tool

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1182-1194

  Ahmad, Hafiz M Nafees ^a   Sinclair, Andrew ^a   Jamieson, Rob ^a   Madani, Ali ^a   Hebb, Dale ^b   Havard, Peter ^a   Yiridoe, Emmanuel K ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND USE; AGRICULTURAL WATERSHEDS; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; CROP ROTATION; DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FIELD DATA; HYDROLOGIC RESPONSE UNITS; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; MEASURED DATA; MODEL CALIBRATION; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MODEL SEDIMENTS; MODELING SEDIMENT; NITRATE NITROGEN; NITROGEN EXPORT; NITROGEN LOADS; NITROGEN SOURCES; NON-POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; NOVA SCOTIA; RURAL LANDSCAPES; RURAL WATERSHEDS; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOLS; SUBBASINS; SWAT MODEL; SWAT2005; TOTAL NITROGEN; WATERSHED MODELS; WATERSHED SIMULATION; WHEAT YIELD;

AGRICULTURE; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; NITROGEN; RATING; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STREAM FLOW; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHEDS;

LANDFORMS;

NITRATE; NITROGEN;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTICLE; CANADA; CROP; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; HYDROLOGY; LANDSCAPE; RURAL AREA; SEDIMENT; SIMULATION; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOL; STREAM (RIVER); WATER FLOW; WATERSHED; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT;

AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITRATES; NITROGEN; NOVA SCOTIA; RIVERS; SOIL; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

HORDEUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79960702251     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: 15372537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2010.0530     Document Type: Article

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