Determining potential rainwater harvesting sites using a continuous runoff potential accounting procedure and GIS techniques in central Italy

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 141, Issue , 2014, Pages 55-65

  Napoli, Marco ^a   Cecchi, Stefano ^a   Orlandini, Simone ^a   Zanchi, Camillo A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Central Italy; Chianti; Curve Number; Farm ponds

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; INFILTRATION; LAKES; RAIN; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER SUPPLY;

CENTRAL ITALY; CHIANTI; CURVE NUMBERS; FARM PONDS; MODEL CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION; NASH-SUTCLIFFE COEFFICIENT; SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE CURVE NUMBERS; SPATIALLY VARYING PARAMETERS;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF;

EID: 84899839526     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2014.04.012     Document Type: Article

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