Potential groundwater contribution to Amazon evapotranspiration

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2039-2056

  Fan, Y ^a   Miguez Macho, G ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; ADEQUATE WATERS; AMAZON FORESTS; AMAZONIA; CAPILLARY FORCE; CLIMATE FORCINGS; DYNAMIC FEEDBACK; DYNAMIC SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM MODEL; EQUILIBRIUM MODEL CALCULATION; EQUILIBRIUM POTENTIALS; FINE-TEXTURED SOILS; FIRST-ORDER; FULLY-COUPLED MODEL; GROUNDWATER MODEL SIMULATION; INITIAL STATE; INTERANNUAL; LAND SURFACE; RIVER VALLEY; SHALLOW WATER TABLES; SOIL WATER; SOIL WATER FLUXES; STUDY SITES; SURFACE SOIL; VEGETATION STRESS; WATER TABLE DEPTHS; WATER TABLES;

AQUIFERS; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RATING; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER SUPPLY;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DRY SEASON; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROUNDWATER; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHALLOW WATER; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; VEGETATION TYPE; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TABLE;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 77958539999     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-14-2039-2010     Document Type: Article

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