Development and testing of a physically based, three-dimensional model of surface and subsurface hydrology

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 106-122

  Bittelli, Marco ^a   Tomei, Fausto ^b   Pistocchi, Alberto ^c   Flury, Markus ^d   Boll, Jan ^e   Brooks, Erin S ^e   Antolini, Gabriele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b Environmental Protection Agency of Emilia Romagna   (Italy)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Catchment; Distributed; Models; Physically based; Subsurface hydrology; Surface hydrology

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE MODEL; DARCY'S LAW; DISTRIBUTED MODELS; DYNAMIC LINK LIBRARY; EQUATION OF MOTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE; FLOW EQUATIONS; HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS; PARABOLIC APPROXIMATION; PHYSICALLY BASED; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT WATER; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RADIATION BUDGET; RICHARDS' EQUATION; SATURATED ZONE; SCALE MODELS; SMALL CATCHMENT; SNOW MELT; SNOW-MELTING; SOIL WATER CONTENT; ST. VENANT EQUATIONS; SUBSURFACE FLOW; SUBSURFACE HYDROLOGY; SURFACE AND SUBSURFACE FLOW; SURFACE ENERGIES; SURFACE FLOW; SURFACE HYDROLOGY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DOMAIN; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; UNSATURATED ZONE; WATER BALANCE; WATER DEPTH;

CATCHMENTS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GROUNDWATER; ROADS AND STREETS; RUNOFF; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SNOW; SOIL MOISTURE; STREAM FLOW; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION; SURFACE TESTING; TWO DIMENSIONAL; UNDERWATER SOILS; WATER SUPPLY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; CATCHMENT; DARCY LAW; EQUATION OF STATE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHREATIC ZONE; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RICHARDS EQUATION; STREAMFLOW; SUBSURFACE FLOW; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WATER BUDGET; WATER UPTAKE;

EID: 71649099096     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2009.10.013     Document Type: Article

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