Identifying the optimal spatially and temporally invariant root distribution for a semiarid environment

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Sivandran, Gajan ^a   Bras, Rafael L ^b  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARIZONA; EXPERIMENTAL WATERSHEDS; HIGH VARIABILITY; HYDROLOGIC MODELS; LAND SURFACE; PARAMETER SPACES; RAIN GAUGES; ROOT DISTRIBUTION; SCARCE RESOURCES; SEMI-ARID ENVIRONMENTS; SEMI-ARID REGION; SOIL TEXTURES; TWO-PARAMETER MODELS; VERTICAL ROOT DISTRIBUTIONS; WALNUT GULCH; WEATHER STATIONS;

ARID REGIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOISTURE; RAIN; SOILS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TEXTURES; TRANSPIRATION; VEGETATION;

OPTIMIZATION;

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; LAND SURFACE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; ROOTING; SEMIARID REGION; SIMULATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEXTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION; WATERSHED;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

JUGLANS;

EID: 84871544809     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR012055     Document Type: Article

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