Climate, soil, and vegetation controls on the temporal variability of vadose zone transport

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Harman, C J ^a   Rao, P S C ^b   Basu, N B ^c   McGrath, G S ^d   Kumar, P ^a   Sivapalan, M ^a,e,f  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IA United States   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^f DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT MODES; HYDROCLIMATIC; HYDRUS MODEL; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; POINT LOAD; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; RAINFALL EVENT; SEMI-ANALYTICAL EXPRESSION; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL WATER; STOCHASTIC DYNAMICS; TEMPORAL PATTERN; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TRANSPORT AND TRANSFORMATION; TRAVEL TIME; VADOSE ZONE; VEGETATION CONTROL; WATER BALANCE; WATER FLUX;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROUNDWATER; LEACHING; RAIN; SEEPAGE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WATER SUPPLY;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DRAINAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FILTER; FLUX MEASUREMENT; GROUNDWATER FLOW; INFILTRATION; LANDSCAPE; LEACHING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL TYPE; SOIL WATER; SOLUTE; STOCHASTICITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRAVEL TIME; VADOSE ZONE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WATER BUDGET; WATER DEPTH;

EID: 79955059047     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR010194     Document Type: Article

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