Development of a simplified model for the estimation of hydrological components in areas of maquis vegetation in Greece

WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 310-320

  Baloutsos, George ^a   Bourletsikas, Athanassios ^a   Baltas, Evangelos ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Hydrological Modeling; Interception Losses; Rainfall; Stemflow; Throughfall

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; EVERGREEN TREE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INTERCEPTION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; RAINFALL; STEMFLOW;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 67049108780     PISSN: 17905079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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