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- Title
Prediction of storm-related sediment-associated contaminant loads in a watershed scale.
- Authors
Noor, Hamzeh; Fazli, Somayeh; Alibakhshi, Seyde Maryam
- Abstract
Suspended sediment moving in watersheds provides a pathway for the transport of sediment-associated contaminants. Information about sediment and nutrients exported from catchments as well as related erosive processes are required by catchment managers and decision-makers. Due to lack of adequate data in this respect, the Modified Universal Soil Loss Equation (MUSLE) model has been applied in storm-related sediment yield predictions in the Kojour watershed, Iran, to estimate the phosphorus (P) and organic matter (OM) loads associated with storm-related sediments The results of this study showed that a calibrated MUSLE model could estimate storm-related OM and P losses in the study area within an acceptable estimation error (RE) of 33% and 23%, respectively.
- Subjects
ORGANIC water pollutants; CARBON content of water; PHOSPHORUS in water; SEDIMENTS; WATERSHEDS
- Publication
Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology (International Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, European Regional Centre for Ecohydrology), 2012, Vol 12, Issue 3, p183
- ISSN
1642-3593
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1016/S1642-3593(12)70202-1