Stochastic description of water table fluctuations in wetlands

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Tamea, Stefania ^a   Muneepeerakul, Rachata ^b   Laio, Francesco ^a   Ridolfi, Luca ^a   Rodriguez Iturbe, Ignacio ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPED MODEL; EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK; EXTENDED MODEL; FLORIDA , US; HUMAN BEING; QUANTITATIVE APPROACH; WATER TABLE FLUCTUATIONS; WATER-LEVEL FLUCTUATION; WETLAND ECOSYSTEM;

AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; PARKS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SOIL MOISTURE; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WATER LEVELS; WETLANDS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; SOIL MOISTURE; STOCHASTICITY; WATER TABLE; WATERLOGGING; WETLAND;

EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77949791992     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041633     Document Type: Article

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