Forest floor water content dynamics in a Douglas fir stand

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 201, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 367-383

  Schaap, M G ^a,b   Beuten, W ^a   Verstraten, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b U S SALINITY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaporation; Forest floor; Forests; Hydrology; Models

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ECOSYSTEMS; EVAPORATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REFLECTOMETERS; SOILS; WATER;

DOUGLAS FIR FOREST; EVAPORATION RATE; FOREST FLOOR WATER CONTENT DYNAMICS; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY;

HYDROLOGY;

DOUGLAS FIR; EVAPORATION; FOREST FLOOR; FOREST HYDROLOGY; MICROMETEOROLOGY; SOIL WATER CONTENT; TDR;

EID: 0031581557     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1694(97)00047-4     Document Type: Article

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