Stormflow generation in a small rainforest catchment in the Luquillo experimental forest, Puerto Rico

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 505-530

  Schellekens, J ^a,b   Scatena, F N ^c   Bruijnzeel, L A ^a   van Dijk, A I J M ^a   Groen, M M A ^a   van Hogezand, R J P ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b WL DELFT HYDRAULICS   (Netherlands)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL FORESTRY   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Chemical mixing model; Geo electrical survey; Rainforest; Runoff generation; Soil water model

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SOILS; STREAM FLOW; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

MASS-BALANCE MIXING MODELS; STORMFLOW GENERATION;

STORMS;

CATCHMENT; OVERLAND FLOW; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RAINFOREST; SOIL WATER; STORMWATER; STREAMFLOW;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; LUQUILLO EXPERIMENTAL FOREST; PUERTO RICO;

EID: 1542347680     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.1335     Document Type: Article

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