Estimating scale effects of catchment properties on modeling soil and water degradation in Benin (West Africa)

iEMSs 2012 - Managing Resources of a Limited Planet: Proceedings of the 6th Biennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2974-2981

  Bossa, A Y ^a   Diekkruger B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Catchment properties; Modeling scale; Soil and water degradation; SWAT; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894169130     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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