Implications of rainfall temporal resolution for soil-moisture and transpiration modeling

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 37-67

  Puma, Michael J ^a   Rodriguez Iturbe, Ignacio ^a   Celia, Michael A ^a   Guswa, Andrew J ^b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Neyman Scottmodel; Rainfalldata; Rainfallmodeling; Soil plant atmospheremodel; Soilmoisture; Transpiration; Vadose zone

Indexed keywords

NEYMAN-SCOTT MODEL; POISSON MODEL;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANTS (BOTANY); RAIN; SOIL MOISTURE; TRANSPIRATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANTS (BOTANY); RAIN; SOIL MOISTURE; TRANSPIRATION;

MODELING; POISSON RATIO; RAINFALL; SOIL MOISTURE; TRANSPIRATION; VADOSE ZONE;

COLORADO; NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34447318880     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-006-9057-4     Document Type: Article

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