Scale effects of Hortonian overland flow and rainfall-runoff dynamics in a West African catena landscape

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 165-175

  Van De Giesen, N C ^a,c   Stomph, T J ^b   De Ridder, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Hortonian flows; Infiltration; Rainfall intensities; Runoff model; Scale; Slope length; Sub humid tropics; Surface runoff; West Africa

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW OF WATER; INFILTRATION; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; RUNOFF; STORMS; TROPICS;

HORTONIAN FLOW; RAINFALL INTENSITIES; SLOPE LENGTH; SUBHUMID TROPICS; WEST AFRICA;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

CATENA; OVERLAND FLOW; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SCALE EFFECT;

COTE D'IVOIRE;

EID: 0034099160     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1085(200001)14:1<165::AID-HYP920>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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