AN EVALUATION OF THE HYDROLOGIC SOIL GROUPS AS USED IN THE SCS RUNOFF METHOD ON RANGELANDS1 |
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| Authors: | M. Karl Wood Wilbert H. Blackburn |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Associate Professor of Watershed Management, Department of Animal and Range Sciences and Range Improvement Task Force, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003.;2. Professor of Watershed Management, Range Science Department, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas 77843. |
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| Abstract: | The U.S. Soil Conservation Service has developed a method for estimating runoff for small watersheds when stream flow data are not available. The technique is based on a simplified infiltration model of runoff using various kinds of soil, land use, and empirical approximation. |
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| Keywords: | runoff infiltration soil rangelands |
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