Model-Based Characterization and Monitoring of Runoff and Soil Erosion in Response to Land Use/land Cover Changes in the Modjo Watershed, Ethiopia

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 711-724

  Gessesse, Berhan ^a,b   Bewket, Woldeamlak ^a   Bräuning, Achim ^b  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ethiopian highlands; Land use land cover change; Runoff; Soil erosion; SWAT

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; EFFICIENCY; EROSION; LAND USE; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW; WATERSHEDS;

CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; ETHIOPIAN HIGHLANDS; LAND USE/LAND COVER CHANGE; RUNOFF AND SEDIMENT YIELDS; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOL; SOIL EROSION; SURFACE RUNOFF GENERATION; SWAT;

SOILS;

EID: 84944520106     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2276     Document Type: Article

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