Regionalization of SWAT model parameters for use in ungauged watersheds

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 849-871

  Gitau, Margaret W ^a   Chaubey, Indrajeet ^b  

^a FLORIDA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrologic calibration; Modeling; SWAT; Ungauged watersheds

Indexed keywords

MODELS; STREAM FLOW;

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; HYDROLOGIC RESPONSE; MODEL BASED APPROACH; MODEL CALIBRATION; MODEL PARAMETER SETS; SWAT; UNGAUGED WATERSHED;

WATERSHEDS;

EID: 84890338269     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w2040849     Document Type: Article

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