A physically based distributed subsurface-surface flow dynamics model for forested mountainous catchments

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 19, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 3999-4022

  Mulungu, Deogratias M M ^a   Ichikawa, Yutaka ^b   Shiiba, Michiharu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Forest; Macropores; Mountainous terrain; Partitioning of vertical and horizontal (lateral) flow; Physically based hydrological model; Preferential subsurface flow; Runoff generation mechanisms

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY FLOW; EVAPORATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FORESTRY; HYDROLOGY; INFILTRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); RAIN; RIVERS; RUNOFF; TRANSPIRATION;

MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN; PREFERENTIAL SUBSURFACE FLOW; RUNOFF GENERATION MECHANISMS; SOIL MATRIX FLOW; SUBSURFACE FLOW; SURFACE FLOW;

CATCHMENTS;

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY FLOW; CATCHMENTS; EVAPORATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FORESTRY; HYDROLOGY; INFILTRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); RAIN; RIVERS; RUNOFF; TRANSPIRATION;

HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; MOUNTAIN REGION; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; RIVER BASIN; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

BASINS; CAPILLARITY; EVAPORATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FORESTS; HYDROLOGY; INFILTRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERCOLATION; RAIN; RIVERS; RUNOFF; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSPIRATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 30744476203     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.5868     Document Type: Article

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