Water budgets of three small catchments under montane forest in Ecuador: Experimental and modelling approach

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2491-2507

  Fleischbein, Katrin ^a   Wilcke, Wolfgang ^b   Valarezo, Carlos ^d   Zech, Wolfgang ^c   Knoblich, Klaus ^e  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LOJA   (Ecuador)

^e JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Catchment; Evapotranspiration; Incident precipitation; Surface flow; Throughfall; TOPMODEL; Tropical lower montane forest; Water budget

Indexed keywords

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOG; FORESTRY; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WATER SUPPLY;

INCIDENT PRECIPITATION; SURFACE FLOW; THROUGHFALL; TROPICAL LOWER MONTANE FOREST; WATER BUDGET;

CATCHMENTS;

CATCHMENTS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOG; FORESTRY; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WATER SUPPLY;

CATCHMENT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLOW MODELING; FORESTRY; SLOPE; STEMFLOW; WATER BUDGET; WATER FLOW; WATER SUPPLY;

FORESTRY; HYDROLOGY; PRECIPITATION; WATER SUPPLY;

ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33747049525     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6212     Document Type: Article

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