Subsurface stormflow is important in semiarid karst shrublands

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Wilcox, Bradford P ^a   Taucer, Phillip I ^a   Munster, Clyde L ^b   Owens, M Keith ^c   Mohanty, Binayak P ^b   Sorenson, Joshua R ^a   Bazan, Roberto ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Texas A and M University   (United States)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS;

ASHE JUNIPERS; BEFORE AND AFTER; CENTRAL TEXASES; EDWARDS PLATEAUX; FLOOD EVENTS; OVERLAND FLOWS; RAINFALL EVENTS; SEMI-ARID; SEMIARID LANDSCAPES; SHRUBLANDS; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; SUBSURFACE STORMFLOW;

LANDFORMS;

HILLSLOPE; KARST; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SEMIARID REGION; SHRUBLAND; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

EDWARDS PLATEAU; NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

JUNIPERUS ASHEI;

EID: 58049109995     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033696     Document Type: Article

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