A climate-induced threshold in hydrologic response in a semiarid ponderosa pine hillslope

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Mahmood, Taufique H ^a   Vivoni, Enrique R ^a,b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COVER; DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGIC MODEL; FORESTED HILLSLOPES; HILLSLOPE SOIL; HILLSLOPES; HYDROLOGIC RESPONSE; MODEL SIMULATION; MOISTURE FLUXES; NONLOCAL; NORTH AMERICAN; PONDEROSA PINES; RUNOFF GENERATION; SEASONAL RAINFALL; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL RESPONSE; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; THRESHOLD BEHAVIOR; TOPOGRAPHIC CONTROL; VEGETATION PATTERN; WATER AVAILABILITY; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION; WATER SUPPLY;

SOIL SURVEYS;

CONIFEROUS TREE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HILLSLOPE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATCHINESS; RUNOFF; SEASONALITY; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL MOISTURE; STAND STRUCTURE; THRESHOLD; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER AVAILABILITY;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 80053602763     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010384     Document Type: Article

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