Simulating seasonal soil water balance in contrasting semi-arid vegetation communities

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 84, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 151-162

  Kremer, Robert G ^a,b   Running, Steven W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Seasonality; Water dynamics

Indexed keywords

MODEL MODIFICATION; PARAMETERIZATION; SEASONALITY; SEMIARID VEGETATION; SOIL WATER BALANCE;

USA, WASHINGTON;

EID: 0029668965     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3800(94)00140-5     Document Type: Article

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