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Main Title AGWA (Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment) Design Documentation: Migrating to ArcGis(Trade Name) and the Internet.
Author Cate, A. J. ; Semmens, D. J. ; Burns, I. S. ; Goodrich, D. C. ; Kepner, W. G. ;
CORP Author Agricultural Research Service, Tucson, AZ. Southwest Watershed Research Center.;Environmental Protection Agency, Las Vegas, NV. National Exposure Research Lab.
Publisher Apr 2005
Year Published 2005
Report Number ARS-181027 ;EPA/600/R-05/056;
Stock Number PB2006-100571
Additional Subjects Watersheds ; Computer applications ; Design ; Hydrologic systems ; Internet ; Water quality management ; Water quality control ; Risk assessments ; Software(Computers) ; Computer models ; Processes ; Utilization ; Evaluation ; Ecosystems ; Monitoring ; Research and development ; Technology utilization ; Models ; US Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) ; National Exposure Research Laboratory(NERL) ; Agricultural Research Service(ARS) ; Geological Information Systems(GIS) ; Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment(AGWA)
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NTIS  PB2006-100571 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
Planning and assessment in land- and water-resource management are evolving from simple, local-scale problems toward complex, spatially explicit regional ones. Such problems have to be addressed with distributed models that can compute runoff and erosion at different spatial and temporal scales. The extensive data requirements and the difficult task of building input parameter files, however, have long represented an obstacle to the timely and cost-effective use of such complex models by resource managers. In addition, to evaluate management practices and their impacts on water quality, land and resource managers need to describe and simulate the impacts of land use and best management practices (BMPs) on watershed response. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the Southwest Watershed Research Center (SWRC), in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-Office of Research and Development (ORD), and the University of Arizona (UA), have developed the Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment (AGWA) Geographic Information System (GIS) tool to facilitate the distributed hydrological modeling process. The quality assurance and quality control measures used in the development of AGWA are described in PB2003-103047 (EPA/600/R-02/046).