Modelling the non-linear hydrological behaviour of a small Mediterranean forested catchment

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 3814-3828

  Medici, C ^a   Butturini, A ^b   Bernal, S ^c   Vazquez E ^b   Sabater, F ^b   Velez J I ^d   Frances F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Mediterranean intermittent stream; Perceptual modelling; Riparian zone

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MODEL STRUCTURES; TANKS (CONTAINERS); WATER TANKS; WATER WELLS;

ANNUAL WATER BALANCE; BEST FIT; CALIBRATION PROCESSING; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; KEY FACTORS; LUMPED MODELING; MEDITERRANEAN INTERMITTENT STREAM; NASH-SUTCLIFFE EFFICIENCY; NON-LINEAR; NON-LINEAR BEHAVIOUR; PERCEPTUAL MODELLING; RIPARIAN ZONE; RIPARIAN ZONES; SATURATED ZONE; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; VEGETATION COVER; WATER TABLE; WET CONDITIONS;

HYDRAULIC MODELS;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FORESTED CATCHMENT; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; MODELING; PHREATIC ZONE; RIPARIAN ZONE; STREAM; TRANSPIRATION; VEGETATION COVER; WATER BUDGET; WATER TABLE;

EID: 52149119199     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6991     Document Type: Article

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