KINEROS2/AGWA: Model use, calibration, and validation

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1561-1574

  Goodrich, D C ^a   Burns, I S ^a   Unkrich, C L ^a   Semmens, D J ^b   Guertin, D P ^c   Hernandez, M ^a   Yatheendradas, S ^d   Kennedy, J R ^b   Levick, L R ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST WATERSHED RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed watershed model; Erosion; Kinematic wave; KINEROS; Rainfall runoff; Sediment

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; DISTRIBUTED MODELS; DISTRIBUTED WATERSHED MODELS; EROSION MODELS; EVENT-BASED; EVENT-BASED MODEL; FINITE DIFFERENCE APPROXIMATIONS; GEO-SPATIAL; GIS DATA; HILLSLOPE EROSION; HILLSLOPES; INFILTRATION MODELS; KINEMATIC WAVES; KINEROS; MANURE TRANSPORT; MODELING TOOL; OVERLAND FLOW; PHYSICALLY BASED; POST-FIRE; RAINFALL RUNOFF; SMALL WATERSHEDS; TIME-CONSUMING TASKS; TRAPEZOIDAL CHANNELS; WATERSHED ASSESSMENT; WATERSHED DELINEATION; WATERSHED MODELS;

CALIBRATION; EROSION; KINEMATICS; LANDFORMS; MANURES; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

WATERSHEDS;

CALIBRATION; FLOW MODELING; GIS; HILLSLOPE; INFILTRATION; MODEL VALIDATION; OVERLAND FLOW; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SEDIMENT CORE; SOFTWARE; SOIL EROSION; URBANIZATION; WATERSHED; WILDFIRE;

EID: 84867365633     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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