Spatial variability of hydraulic conductivity and bulk density along a blanket peatland hillslope

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1527-1537

  Lewis, Ciaran ^a   Albertson, John ^b   Xu, Xianli ^a   Kiely, Ger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Bulk density; Peatland; Rainfall runoff; Saturated hydraulic conductivity

Indexed keywords

BASEFLOWS; BULK DENSITY; FIELD INVESTIGATION; FLOOD FLOW; FLOW ANALYSIS; HILLSLOPES; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; IRELAND; PEATLAND; RAINFALL RUNOFF; RAINFALL-RUNOFF CHARACTERISTICS; RIPARIAN ZONES; SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL VARIATIONS;

ANISOTROPY; CATCHMENTS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; RAIN; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW;

WETLANDS;

ANISOTROPY; BLANKET BOG; BULK DENSITY; HILLSLOPE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PEATLAND; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SPATIAL VARIATION; STREAMFLOW;

IRELAND;

EID: 84860527306     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8252     Document Type: Article

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