Development of a grid-based version of the SWAT landscape model

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 900-914

  Rathjens, H ^a   Oppelt, N ^a   Bosch, D D ^b   Arnold, J G ^c   Volk, M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b SOUTHEAST WATERSHED RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discretization scheme; Landscape routing; Raster based simulation; SWATgrid; Watershed modeling

Indexed keywords

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLOW SEPARATION; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; RIVERS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STREAM FLOW; WATERSHEDS;

DISCRETIZATION SCHEME; LANDSCAPE ROUTING; RASTER-BASED SIMULATION; SWATGRID; WATERSHED MODELING;

RUNOFF;

EID: 84923848305     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10197     Document Type: Article

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