Runoff and Sediment Yield Modelling for a Treated Hilly Watershed in Eastern Himalaya Using the Water Erosion Prediction Project Model

Water Resources Management

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 643-665

  Singh, R K ^a   Panda, R K ^b   Satapathy, K K ^c   Ngachan, S V ^a  

^a ICAR RESEARCH COMPLEX FOR NEH REGION   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH ON JUTE AND ALLIED FIBRE TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Hillslope; Runoff; Sediment; Treated watershed; Water harvesting tank; WEPP

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL SHEAR STRESS; ERODIBILITY; HIGH SLOPES; HILLSLOPES; HIMALAYAS; INTERRILL; MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; MANNING'S ROUGHNESS COEFFICIENT; MODEL PERFORMANCE; PARAMETER VALUES; RAINFALL CONDITION; SEDIMENT YIELDS; SOIL LOSS; SOIL PARAMETERS; SOIL PROPERTY; STRUCTURE-BASED; SURFACE RUNOFFS; VALIDATION PERIODS; WATER EROSION PREDICTION PROJECT MODELS; WATER EROSION PREDICTION PROJECTS; WATER-HARVESTING TANK; WATERSHED MODELS; WEPP;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; EROSION; FORECASTING; GEOLOGIC MODELS; HARVESTING; LANDFORMS; RAIN; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SOILS; TANKS (CONTAINERS); WATER RESOURCES; WATER TREATMENT; WATERSHEDS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CALIBRATION; ERODIBILITY; HILLSLOPE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT YIELD; SHEAR STRESS; SOIL PROPERTY; WATERSHED;

HIMALAYAS;

EID: 84856023422     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-011-9937-4     Document Type: Article

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