Watershed modelling of hydrology and water quality in the Sacramento River watershed, California

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 236-250

  Ficklin, Darren L ^a   Luo, Yuzhou ^a   Zhang, Minghua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural runoff; Calibration; California; SWAT; Uncertainty; Water quality

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL POLLUTANTS; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; CALIBRATED MODEL; CALIFORNIA; CHLORPYRIFOS; ECOSYSTEM PROTECTION; FLOOD ROUTING; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; MODEL APPLICATION; MODEL SIMPLIFICATION; MODELLING FRAMEWORK; MULTI-OBJECTIVE CALIBRATION; NASH-SUTCLIFFE COEFFICIENT; OBSERVED DATA; PESTICIDE TRANSPORT; SACRAMENTO RIVER; SEDIMENT LOADS; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOL; STUDY AREAS; SWAT; UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY INTERVALS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATERSHED MODELLING; WET SEASON;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; AGRICULTURE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOODS; LANDFORMS; PESTICIDES; POLLUTION; RAIN; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; STREAM FLOW; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; CALIBRATION; FLOOD ROUTING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RIVER POLLUTION; RUNOFF; STREAMFLOW; SWATH BATHYMETRY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

CALIFORNIA; SACRAMENTO RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84872186873     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9222     Document Type: Article

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