Application of the soil and water assessment tool (SWAT) for sediment transport simulation at a headwater watershed in minas gerais state, Brazil

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 697-709

  Pinto, D B F ^a   Da Silva, A M ^b   Beskow, S ^c   De Mello, C R ^b   Coelho, G ^b  

^a Instituto de Ciências da Saúde e do Instituto Superior de Educação   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF LAVRAS   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Hydrological model; Sediment transport; SWAT; Water erosion; Water resources management

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; HYDROLOGICAL MONITORING; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOL; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT CONCENTRATIONS; SWAT; WATER EROSION; WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LANDFORMS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; STREAM FLOW; WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS;

WATER POLLUTION;

HEADWATER; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STREAMFLOW; WATER EROSION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

BRAZIL; MINAS GERAIS;

EID: 84878587299     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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