Climate, soil, and vegetation controls upon the variability of water balance in temperate and semiarid landscapes: Downward approach to water balance analysis

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Farmer, Darren ^a   Sivapalan, Murugesu ^a   Jothityangkoon, Chatchai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hydrology; Landscape controls; Rainfall runoff; Water balance

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; SOILS; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; VEGETATION;

SEMIARID ENVIRONMENTS;

WATER ANALYSIS;

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE EFFECT; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL WATER; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION COVER; WATER BUDGET;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 17944384918     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001WR000328     Document Type: Article

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