Intercode comparisons for simulating water balance of surficial sediments in semiarid regions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 59-1-59-16

  Scanlon, Bridget R ^a   Christman, Marty ^b   Reedy, Robert C ^a   Porro, Indrek ^c   Simunek, Jirka ^d   Flerchinger, Gerald N ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b GEOSYNTEC CONSULTANTS   (United States)

^c IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d U S SALINITY LABORATORY   (United States)

^e U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrologic budget; Soil moisture; Unsaturated zone; Water balance modeling

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAINAGE; GROUNDWATER; SEDIMENTS;

WATER RETENTION;

SURFACE WATERS;

MODELING; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFICIAL SEDIMENT; VADOSE ZONE; WATER BUDGET;

EID: 0037003584     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001wr001233     Document Type: Article

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