ABSTRACT:
Accurate, comprehensive watershed models are among the most effective tools available to planners and researchers in water resources and water quality. Of the two basic types of models, the distributed parameter model has the potential for greater accuracy and output in estimating sediment yields than the lumped parameter model. One distributed parameter model, ANSWERS (Areal Nonpoint Source Watershed Environment Response Simulation), illustrates this potential in its applicaton to a 714-hectare (1,765-acre) agricultural watershed in Indiana, which was subjected to an actual precipitation event and treated with several alternative management schemes.
Footnotes
D. B. Beasley is an assistant professor, L. F. Huggins is a professor and head, and E. J. Monke is a professor, Agricultural Engineering Department, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907. This research was sponsored by Region V, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station in cooperation with the Allen County (Indiana) Soil and Water Conservation District and the Indiana Heart-lands Coordinating Commission. Approved for publication as Purdue AES Journal Paper No. 8539.
- Copyright 1982 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society
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