Evaporation and energy balance of a wet grassland at Tadham Moor on the Somerset Levels

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 2346-2357

  Harding, R J ^a   Lloyd, C R ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Energy fluxes; Evaporation; Peat; Resistances; Somerset Levels; Water table; Wetland

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING; ENERGY BALANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; EVAPORATION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; HEALTH; SOIL MOISTURE; STANDARDS; UNDERWATER SOILS; VAPORS; WATER WELLS; WETLANDS;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; (P ,P ,T) MEASUREMENTS; BALANCE (WEIGHTING); DRAINAGE DITCHES; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; PENMAN MONTEITH (PM) EQUATION; RADIANT ENERGY; ROUGHNESS LENGTHS; SEASONALITY; SIGNIFICANT FACTOR; SOIL WATER; SOUTHWEST (CO); STANDARD PARAMETERS; SUB SURFACE FLOW (SSF); WATER BALANCES; WATER TABLE (WT);

MOISTURE;

DRAINAGE; ENERGY BALANCE; EVAPORATION; RAINFALL; SUBSURFACE FLOW; WATER BUDGET; WATER TABLE; WETLAND;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOMERSET; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 46449138605     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6829     Document Type: Article

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