A field-scale infiltration model accounting for spatial heterogeneity of rainfall and soil saturated hydraulic conductivity

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1465-1481

  Morbidelli, Renato ^a   Corradini, Corrado ^a   Govindaraju, Rao S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Areal average infiltration; Hydrologic modelling; Infiltration models

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROLOGY; INFILTRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAIN; SOILS; SURFACE WATERS;

AREAL-AVERAGE INFILTRATION; HYDROLOGIC MODELLING; INFILTRATION MODELS; RAINFALL INTENSITY; SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROLOGY; INFILTRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAIN; SOILS; SURFACE WATERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; INFILTRATION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 33646020374     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.5943     Document Type: Article

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