Evaluation of the swat model in hydrologic modeling of a large watershed in Nigeria

Proceedings of the 3rd IASTED African Conference on Water Resource Management, AfricaWRM 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 71-76

  Xie, Hua ^a   Nkonya, Ephraim ^a   Wielgosz, Benjamin ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

And uncertainty; Calibration; Soil and water assessment tool (SWAT); Watershed

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; EROSION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHEDS;

AND UNCERTAINTY; GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION; HYDROLOGIC MODELING; HYDROLOGIC PARAMETERS; HYDROLOGIC SIMULATIONS; INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOL; SOIL WATER RETENTION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84858637919     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2316/p.2010.686-055     Document Type: Conference Paper

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