Estimating Sediment Yield from Upland and Channel Erosion at A Watershed Scale Using SWAT

Water Resources Management

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1399-1412

  Liu, Yongbo ^a,b   Yang, Wanhong ^b   Yu, Zhiqiang ^b   Lung, Ivana ^b   Gharabaghi, Bahram ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Channel erosion; Sediment yield; South tobacco creek; SWAT; Upland erosion

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; EROSION; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOILS; TOBACCO; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE (BMPS); CHANNEL EROSION; INTEGRATED WATERSHED MANAGEMENT; SEDIMENT YIELDS; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOL; SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION PROJECTS; SOUTH TOBACCO CREEK; SWAT;

SEDIMENTS;

EID: 84925490082     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: 15731650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-014-0729-5     Document Type: Article

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