RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Modeling sediment yields from agricultural watersheds JF Journal of Soil and Water Conservation FD Soil and Water Conservation Society SP 113 OP 117 VO 37 IS 2 A1 D. B. Beasley A1 L. F. Huggins A1 E. J. Monke YR 1982 UL http://www.jswconline.org/content/37/2/113.abstract AB 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.