Measuring runoff by plots at different scales: Understanding and analysing the sources of variation

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 344, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 441-448

  Mounirou, Lawani Adjadi ^a   Yacouba, Hamma ^a   Karambiri, Harouna ^a   Paturel, Jean Emmanuel ^a,b   Mahé, Gil ^b  

^a Institut International d'Ingénierie de l'Eau et de l'Environnement   (Burkina Faso)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Hydrologic process; Plot; Runoff; Sahel; Scale effect; Soil surface feature

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HYDRODYNAMICS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RUNOFF; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

SAHEL [SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA];

EID: 84868212002     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2012.08.004     Document Type: Short Survey

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