Estimation of soil parameters for assessing potential wetness: Comparison of model responses through GIS

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 307-326

  Townsend, Philip A ^a   Walsh, Stephen J ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Estimating soil parameters; Geographic information systems; Mapping regression residuals; Wetness potential

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; DATABASE; GIS; HILLSLOPE; HYDROCARBON GENERATION; KINETICS; PARAMETER; PYROLYSIS; ROCK-EVAL; RUNOFF; SOIL WETNESS; SOURCE ROCK; SPATIAL VARIABILITY;

USA, NORTH CAROLINA, UWHARRIE NATIONAL FOREST;

EID: 0029758248     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(199604)21:4<307::AID-ESP503>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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