Assessing the potential hydrological impacts of hydraulic redistribution in Amazonia using a numerical modeling approach

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Wang, Guiling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMAZON FORESTS; AMAZON REGION; AMAZONIA; DEEP ROOTS; DRY REGION; DRY SEASONS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; HYDROLOGICAL IMPACTS; MOISTURE DEPLETION; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; NUMERICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODELING APPROACH; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; PLANT TYPES; PLANT WATER; SOIL WETNESS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER AVAILABILITY;

ECOLOGY; HYDRAULICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; TRANSPIRATION; WATER SUPPLY;

DROUGHT;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEASONALITY; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER AVAILABILITY; WETTING;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 79951987903     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009601     Document Type: Review

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