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Submitted to: Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference Proceedings
Publication Type: Abstract Only Publication Acceptance Date: 3/14/1996 Publication Date: N/A Citation: N/A Interpretive Summary: Technical Abstract: WEPP is a fundamentally based process model that simulates the processes that occur during an erosion event on a field. Also modeled are other events occurring on a field that are important to soil erosion. WEPP is planned to have three versions encompassing areas from the top of the field to the bottom of a small watershed. WEPP is designed to not only predict erosion, but sedimentation and sediment delivery from fields and small watersheds. The WEPP model has been extensively tested, with further testing occurring over the world. Totally independent testing will be accomplished using data from other countries that have not been involved in the development of any of ARSs natural resource models, nor in any of their erosion models. Extensive testing using data from the United States has also occurred. WEPP is complete with user friendly interfaces, both for control of the model and for display of output. WEPP is expected to be adopted for use by the federal government, and become the soil erosion prediction technology of choice for use over the world. |
