Evaluating the impact of Low Impact Development (LID) practices on water quantity and quality under different development designs using SWAT

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Seo, Mijin ^a   Jaber, Fouad ^b   Srinivasan, Raghavan ^c   Jeong, Jaehak ^d  

^a National Institute of Animal Science   (South Korea)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BLACKLAND RESEARCH AND EXTENSION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Different urban designs; Effectiveness of LID practices; LID modeling; Model development; SWAT

Indexed keywords

POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION;

DEVELOPMENT DESIGNS; EFFECTIVENESS OF LID PRACTICES; LOW IMPACT DEVELOPMENT; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; PERMEABLE PAVEMENTS; RAIN WATER HARVESTING; SWAT; URBAN DESIGN;

LAND USE;

LAND USE; NITRATE (INORGANIC SALT); PHOSPHORUS; RAINWATER; RUNOFF; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOL; URBAN DESIGN; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

EID: 85014942055     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w9030193     Document Type: Article

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