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Climate change impacts on extreme floods I: combining imperfect deterministic simulations and non-stationary frequency analysis

Seidou, Ousmane; Ramsay, Andrea; Nistor, Ioan - In: Natural Hazards 61 (2012) 2, pp. 647-659

Ontario, Canada, using the SWAT (Soil and Water Assessment Tool) model as rainfall-runoff model. The parameters of the non …-stationary GEV model are then estimated using Monte Carlo Markov Chain, and the optimal span of the time windows over which the SWAT …

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Simulation of Agricultural Management Alternatives for Watershed Protection

Tuppad, Pushpa; Kannan, Narayanan; Srinivasan, Raghavan; … - In: Water Resources Management 24 (2010) 12, pp. 3115-3144

Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model to simulate various BMPs and assess their long-term impacts on sediment and … nutrient loads at different spatial levels. The SWAT model was calibrated and validated for long-term annual and monthly flows …. The TN and TP outputs were not sensitive to channel cover. This study showed that the SWAT modeling approach could be used …

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Artificial Neural Network Models of Watershed Nutrient Loading

Kim, Raymond; Loucks, Daniel; Stedinger, Jery - In: Water Resources Management 26 (2012) 10, pp. 2781-2797

(SWAT) to multilayer artificial neural networks for monthly watershed load modeling. The modeling results indicate that … the SWAT, and some times much more accurate. With its flexibility and computation efficiency, the ANN should be a useful …

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Uncertainty Analysis in Sediment Load Modeling Using ANN and SWAT Model

Talebizadeh, Mansour; Morid, Saeid; Ayyoubzadeh, Seyyed; … - In: Water Resources Management 24 (2010) 9, pp. 1747-1761

types of model including SWAT as a process-based model and ANNs as a data-driven model in simulating sediment load were … investigated. Calibration and uncertainty analysis of SWAT were performed using monthly observed discharge and sediment load values … discharge dose not change the performance of the ANN model significantly. Comparing the results of SWAT and ANN, it was found …

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Modeling the Production of Multiple Ecosystem Services: Appendix

Liu, Tingting; Merrill, Nathaniel H.; Gold, Arthur J.; … - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 42 (2013) 1

NOTE: This supplemental material and any errors or omissions contained herein are solely the responsibility of the author(s). Agricultural and Resource Economics Review provides this material as a courtesy and therefore does not subject it to a formal or informal review.

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A Spatially Explicit Watershed Scale Optimization of Cellulosic Biofuels Production

Song, Jingyu; Gramig, Benjamin M. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

As environmental deterioration and global warming arouses more and more attention, identifying cleaner and more environmentally friendly energy sources is of interest to society. In addition to environmental concerns, both the high price of gasoline and the fact that the United States has heavy...

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Modeling the Production of Multiple Ecosystem Services from Agricultural and Forest Landscapes in Rhode Island

Liu, Tingting; Merrill, Nathaniel H.; Gold, Arthur J.; … - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 42 (2013) 1

This study spatially quantifies hydrological ecosystem services and the production of ecosystem services at the watershed scale. We also investigate the effects of stressors such as land use change, climate change, and choices in land management practices on production of ecosystem services and...

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Diagnosing Climate Change and Hydrological Responses in the Past Decades for a Minimally-disturbed Headwater Basin in South China

Wu, Yiping; Cheng, Dongsheng; Yan, Wende; Liu, Shuguang; … - In: Water Resources Management 28 (2014) 12, pp. 4385-4400

Identifying the trends of climate and hydrological changes is important for developing adaptive strategies for effective water resources management. Many studies focused on the prediction of future climate at a regional/global scale using General Circulation Models (GCM) or these models’...

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Evaluating the Arc-SWAT2009 in predicting runoff, sediment, and nutrient yields from a vineyard and an olive orchard in Central Italy

Napoli, Marco; Orlandini, Simone - In: Agricultural Water Management 153 (2015) C, pp. 51-62

The ArcSWAT2009 model with an improved sub-model (SWAT-GC) was used to assess plant growth to evaluate sediment and … validated using measured data from January 2011 to August 2013. The results obtained with the SWAT-GC were compared with those … obtained with the standard model (SWAT) calibrated in situ. Daily performance of the calibrated SWAT model in simulating runoff …

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An Assessment of the Causes of Drop outs in Primary Schools of Mountainous Areas of District Swat

Hussain, Anwar Hussain; Khattak, Naeem Ur Rehman Khattak; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The study was conducted in the mountainous areas of district Swat in the year 2010 to assess the causes of drop outs in …

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