Initial soil water content as input to field-scale infiltration and surface runoff models

Water Resources Management

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1793-1807

  Morbidelli, Renato ^a   Corradini, Corrado ^a   Saltalippi, Carla ^a   Brocca, Luca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hydrology; Soil water content; Surface runoff modeling

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE VALUES; COUPLED SOLUTION; DISTRIBUTED MODELS; DOWNSLOPE; FIELD SCALE; HYDROGRAPHS; INITIAL SOIL MOISTURE; LOW SENSITIVITY; NONLINEAR KINEMATICS; OVERLAND FLOW; SEMI-ANALYTICAL; SINGLE-VALUE; SOIL WATER CONTENT; SURFACE RUNOFFS; TEMPORAL STABILITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROLOGY; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE;

INFILTRATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; BASIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HYDROGRAPH; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INFILTRATION; OVERLAND FLOW; PEAK FLOW; RUNOFF; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL WATER; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 84860428102     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-012-9986-3     Document Type: Article

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