Runoff generation from successive simulated rainfalls on a rocky, semi-arid, Mediterranean hillslope

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 279-296

  Lange, J ^a   Greenbaum, N ^b   Husary, S ^c   Ghanem, M ^c   Leibundgut, C ^a   Schick, A P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c Palestinian Hydrology Group   (Palestine)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Artificial rainfall; End member mixing; Mediterranean carbonate rock environment; Runoff generation; Saturation excess runoff; Tracers; Yarkon Taninim aquifer

Indexed keywords

INFILTRATION; ROCKS; RUNOFF; SOILS;

RUNOFF GENERATION;

RAIN;

CARBONATE ROCK; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SATURATION; TRACER;

ISRAEL;

EID: 0037442432     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.1124     Document Type: Article

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