Soil wetness as an indicator of stream salinity: A landscape position index approach

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 587-593

  Dowling, T ^a,c   Summerell, G K ^b,c,d   Walker, J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b NSW Department of Land and Water Conservation   (Australia)

^c Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Catchment categorisation; FLAG; Indicators; Landscape analysis; Landscape position; Salinity

Indexed keywords

SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SOILS; STREAM FLOW;

STREAM SALINITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; MODELING; SALINITY; SOIL WATER; STREAMWATER;

(SOUTHEAST); AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0038687030     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-8152(03)00034-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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