Water storage in a till catchment. I: Distributed modelling and relationship to runoff

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 25, 2011, Pages 3937-3949

  Seibert, Jan ^a,b,e   Bishop, Kevin ^b,c   Nyberg, Lars ^d   Rodhe, Allan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Catchment; Modelling; Saturated and unsaturated zone; Storage

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED MODELLING; DRY CONDITION; GROUNDWATER STORAGE; MODELLING; RECESSION PERIOD; RUNOFF RATES; SATURATED AND UNSATURATED ZONE; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL WATER; UNSATURATED ZONE; WATER BALANCE; WATER STORAGE; WATER TABLES; WET CONDITIONS;

CATCHMENTS; ENERGY STORAGE; GROUNDWATER; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER CONSERVATION;

RUNOFF;

CATCHMENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PHREATIC ZONE; RUNOFF; SOIL WATER; TILL; VADOSE ZONE; WATER BUDGET; WATER STORAGE;

EID: 82655184116     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8309     Document Type: Article

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