Influence of soil heterogeneity on evapotranspiration under shallow water table conditions: Transient, stochastic simulations

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Kollet, Stefan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

coupled modeling; evapotranspiration; soil heterogeneity; stochastic simulations

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952060900     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/3/035007     Document Type: Article

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