Assessing the risks of soil erosion and small reservoir siltation in a tropical river basin in Mali using the swat model under limited data condition

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 895-904

  Xie, Hua ^a   Nkonya, E ^a   Wielgosz, B ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Erosion; Reservoir siltation; SWAT; Water balance; West Africa

Indexed keywords

BASEFLOWS; HYDROLOGIC SIMULATIONS; LATERAL FLOW; LIFESPANS; LIMITED DATA; RIVER BASINS; RIVER SYSTEMS; SEDIMENT YIELDS; SEDIMENTATION PROCESS; SMALL RESERVOIRS; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOL; SOIL EROSION; SURFACE RUNOFFS; SWAT; SWAT MODEL; TRANSPORT PROCESS; TROPICAL RIVERS; WATER BALANCE; WATERSHED HYDROLOGY; WATERSHED MODELS; WEST AFRICA;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EROSION; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RISK PERCEPTION; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOILS; WATERSHEDS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

EID: 81755187009     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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