MACRO (V5.2): Model use, calibration, and validation

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1413-1423

  Jarvis, N ^a   Larsbo, M ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Calibration; Leaching; MACRO; Macropore; Model; Pesticides; Solute; Water flow

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION-DISPERSION EQUATION; CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; CHOICE OF PARAMETERS; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; DUAL-PERMEABILITY MODELS; EUROPEAN UNION; FLUX CONCENTRATION; GLOBAL METHODS; HIGH-TIME RESOLUTION; MACRO PORES; MACROPORE FLOW; MODEL CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION; MULTI OBJECTIVE; NON-EQUILIBRIUM FLOWS; NON-EQUILIBRIUM PROCESS; PARAMETER SPACES; PESTICIDE EXPOSURE; REACTIVE SOLUTES; RESEARCH TOOLS; RICHARDS EQUATION; SOIL HYDROLOGY; SOLUTE; SOLUTE CONCENTRATIONS; STRUCTURED SOIL; TRANSIENT FIELDS; VARIABLY SATURATED; WATER FLOWS;

CONTAMINATION; FLOW OF WATER; GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULICS; LEACHING; MACROS; MODELS; PESTICIDES; RAIN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOILS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

CALIBRATION;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; EUROPEAN UNION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LEACHING; MACROPORE; MODEL VALIDATION; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PERMEABILITY; PESTICIDE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RICHARDS EQUATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EUROPE;

EID: 84867385387     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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