Soil water content variability at the hillslope scale: Impact of surface sealing

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Sela, Shai ^a   Svoray, Tal ^a   Assouline, Shmuel ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1-D SIMULATION; CONTENT VARIABILITY; FIELD SURVEYS; HILLSLOPES; HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS; INFILTRATED WATER; RAINFALL INTENSITY; SEALING PROCESS; SEMI-ARID ENVIRONMENTS; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL LAYER; SOIL SURFACES; SOIL WATER CONTENT; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SURFACE SEALING; SYNTHETIC SIMULATION; WATER BUDGET; WATER LOSS;

EVAPORATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SOIL MOISTURE;

RUNOFF;

DATABASE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; FIELD SURVEY; HILLSLOPE; INFILTRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; RAINFALL; RUNOFF; SEALING; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL SURFACE; SOIL WATER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 84859172057     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011297     Document Type: Article

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