Estimating the parameters of the Green-Ampt infiltration equation from rainfall simulation data: Why simpler is better

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 476, Issue , 2013, Pages 332-344

  Van den Putte, An ^a   Govers, Gerard ^a   Leys, Annemie ^b   Langhans, Christoph ^c   Clymans, Wim ^a   Diels, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Flemish Government   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Green Ampt Mein Larson infiltration model; Model calibration; Rainfall simulation; Soil cover; Soil crusting

Indexed keywords

INFILTRATION MODELS; MODEL CALIBRATION; RAINFALL SIMULATIONS; SOIL COVER; SOIL CRUSTING;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; CALIBRATION; DYNAMIC MODELS; EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; INFILTRATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARAMETERIZATION; SOILS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

CALIBRATION; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INFILTRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PREDICTION; RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNOFF; SOIL COVER; SOIL CRUST; SOIL EROSION; SOIL SURFACE; SOIL WATER;

BELGIUM;

EID: 84871019812     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.10.051     Document Type: Article

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