A numerical study on hydrological impacts of forest restoration in the southern United States

Ecohydrology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 299-314

  Liu, Yongqiang ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Forest restoration; Hydrology; Regional modeling; Southern united states

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE; FOREST CONVERSION; FOREST LAND; FOREST RESTORATION; HYDROLOGICAL CONDITION; HYDROLOGICAL IMPACTS; LAND COVER; NATURAL RESTORATION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; PREVAILING WINDS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; REGIONAL MODELING; SENSIBLE HEAT; SOIL PROPERTY; SOUTHERN UNITED STATES; US GOVERNMENT; VEGETATION CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; EXPERIMENTS; HYDROLOGY; RESTORATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VEGETATION; WATER SUPPLY;

CONSERVATION;

ABANDONED LAND; CLIMATE MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; NUMERICAL METHOD; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RUNOFF; SILVICULTURE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

MIDWEST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79953030498     PISSN: 19360584     EISSN: 19360592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eco.178     Document Type: Article

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