Appropriate vertical discretization of Richards' equation for two-dimensional watershed-scale modelling

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-22

  Downer, Charles W ^a   Ogden, Fred L ^b  

^a WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

CASC2D; GSSHA; Hydrological modeling; Hydrology; Richards' equation; Spatial convergence; Vadose zone

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; NUMERICAL METHODS; RUNOFF;

SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VERTICAL DISCRETIZATION;

WATERSHEDS;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INFILTRATION; RESOLUTION; RICHARDS EQUATION; RUNOFF; STREAMFLOW; WATERSHED;

HORTONIA;

EID: 0842349308     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.1306     Document Type: Article

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