Estimating the potential impact of vegetation on the water cycle requires accurate soil water parameter estimation

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 222, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 2595-2605

  Wolf, Annett ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Carbon storage; Climate change; Hydrology; LPJ GUESS; TOPMODEL; Transpiration; Vegetation modelling

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATED MODEL; CARBON STORAGE; CATCHMENT SCALE; CLIMATIC CHANGES; COMPLEX INTERACTION; DYNAMIC VEGETATION MODEL; GRID CELLS; LOW FLOW; LPJ-GUESS; MOISTURE CONDITIONS; NEW MODEL; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; SOIL PARAMETERS; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL WATER; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STEEP TOPOGRAPHY; TIME-SCALES; TOPMODEL; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATER CYCLE; WATER EXCHANGE; WATER FLUX; WATER HOLDING CAPACITY; WEATHER PATTERNS; WINTER TIME;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; ESTIMATION; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSPIRATION; VEGETATION;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CALIBRATION; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDROLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; POROSITY; RUNOFF; SOIL WATER; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSPIRATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WATER DEPTH; WEATHER;

EID: 79959684862     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.04.031     Document Type: Article

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