Soil roughness and overland flow

Agronomie

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 131-146

  Govers, Gerard ^a,c   Takken, Ingrid ^a   Helming, Katharina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

^c Fund for Scientific Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression storage; Hydraulic resistance; Infiltration; Runoff pattern; Soil roughness

Indexed keywords

OVERLAND FLOW; SOIL PROPERTY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 0034021364     PISSN: 02495627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/agro:2000114     Document Type: Review

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