Special features of the EPIC and APEX modeling package and procedures for parameterization, calibration, validation, and applications

Methods of Introducing System Models into Agricultural Research

Volumn 2, Issue , 2015, Pages 177-208

  Wang, Xiuying ^a   Kemanian, Armen R ^b   Williams, Jimmy R ^a  

^a BLACKLAND RESEARCH AND EXTENSION CENTER   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural policy environmental extender modeling package; Environmental policy impact climate model; Erosion sedimentation; Hydrologic balance; Model calibration; Model parameterization; Model validation; Potential evapotranspiration; Soils; Surface runoff

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867372501     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2134/advagricsystmodel2.c6     Document Type: Chapter

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