Basin-scale soil moisture dynamics and the probabilistic characterization of carrier hydrologic flows: Slow, leaching-prone components of the hydrologic response

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Botter, G ^a   Porporato, A ^b   Rodriguez Iturbe, I ^c   Rinaldo, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF WATER; HYDROLOGY; LEACHING; MOISTURE; PROBABILITY; RUNOFF;

CATCHMENT-SCALE RUNOFF; HYDROLOGIC RESPONSE; MOISTURE DYNAMICS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

FLOW OF WATER; HYDROLOGY; LEACHING; MOISTURE; PROBABILITY; RUNOFF; SOIL SURVEYS;

CATCHMENT; ECOHYDROLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; INFILTRATION; LEACHING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RESIDENCE TIME; RIVER SYSTEM; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33947700008     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005043     Document Type: Article

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