Effects of rainfall seasonality and soil moisture capacity on mean annual water balance for Australian catchments

Water Resources Research

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1-11

  Potter, N J ^a,b,c   Zhang, L ^a,b   Milly, P C D ^d   McMahon, T A ^b,c   Jakeman, A J ^e,f  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; INFILTRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RUNOFF; SOILS;

CLIMATIC ARIDITY; SEASONAL VARIATIONS; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER BALANCE;

RAIN;

RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SEASONALITY; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER BUDGET;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 22444434580     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003697     Document Type: Article

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