Seasonal rainfall-runoff relationships in a lowland forested watershed in the southeastern USA

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 2032-2045

  La Torre Torres, Ileana B ^a,c   Amatya, Devendra M ^b   Sun, Ge ^b   Callahan, Timothy J ^a  

^a School of Business and Economics   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c Berkeley Charleston Dorchester Council of Governments   (United States)

Author keywords

Antecedent precipitation index; Antecedent soil moisture conditions; Base flow; Evapotranspiration; Peak flow rates; Runoff rainfall ratio; Stream flow

Indexed keywords

ANTECEDENT PRECIPITATION INDEX; ANTECEDENT SOIL MOISTURE; BASEFLOWS; PEAK FLOWS; RUNOFF-RAINFALL RATIO;

AERODYNAMICS; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLOW RATE; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LANDFORMS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; STORMS; STREAM FLOW; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

RUNOFF;

BASEFLOW; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; PEAK FLOW; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONALITY; SOIL MOISTURE; STREAMFLOW; WATERSHED;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79959189225     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7955     Document Type: Article

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