Delineation of hydrologically similar units in a watershed based on fuzzy classification of soil hydraulic properties

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 64-79

  Santra, Priyabrata ^a   Das, Bhabani Sankar ^b   Chakravarty, Debashish ^b  

^a CENTRAL ARID ZONE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Discretization; Fuzzy inference system; Hydrological response unit; Hydrologically similar unit; Saturated hydraulic conductivity; Water retention curve

Indexed keywords

DISCRETIZATIONS; FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEMS; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE UNIT; HYDROLOGICALLY SIMILAR UNIT; SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; WATER-RETENTION CURVE;

FUZZY INFERENCE; FUZZY SYSTEMS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LANDFORMS; WATERSHEDS;

SOILS;

FUZZY MATHEMATICS; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL WATER; WATER RETENTION; WATERSHED;

EID: 78650360169     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7820     Document Type: Article

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