Determining nutrient and sediment critical source areas with SWAT: Effect of lumped calibration

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 137-147

  Niraula, R ^a   Kalin, L ^b   Wang, R ^c   Srivastava, P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical source area; Model calibration; Nutrient; Sediment; SWAT; Watershed

Indexed keywords

ALABAMA; CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; COMPUTATIONAL UNITS; HIGHER LOADS; LAND USE/COVER; LIMITED DATA; MODEL CALIBRATION; MODEL PARAMETERS; OBSERVED DATA; POLLUTANT LOADS; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOL; SOURCE AREA; SWAT; SWAT MODEL; TOTAL NITROGEN; TOTAL PHOSPHORUS; WATERSHED MODELING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LANDFORMS; NUTRIENTS; POLLUTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; WATERSHEDS;

CALIBRATION;

CALIBRATION; FLOW MODELING; MODEL VALIDATION; NUTRIENT LOSS; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; WATERSHED;

ALABAMA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859748041     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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