Evaluating controls on coupled hydrologic and vegetation dynamics in a humid continental climate watershed using a subsurface-land surface processes model

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2552-2572

  Shen, Chaopeng ^a   Niu, Jie ^b   Phanikumar, Mantha S ^b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

community land model (CLM); hydrology biogeochemistry interactions; physically based hydrologic model; relative controls; spatiotemporal patterns; water energy limitations

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE MODELS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LAND USE; NITROGEN; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURVEYS; TEMPERATURE; TEXTURES; TRANSPIRATION; VEGETATION; WATERSHEDS;

COMMUNITY LAND MODELS; GROUNDWATER TABLE DEPTH; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PHYSICALLY-BASED HYDROLOGIC MODELS; SATELLITE BASED OBSERVATIONS; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; WATER ENERGY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA);

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAND USE CHANGE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NITROGEN CYCLE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOIL TEXTURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; TOPSOIL; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATER TABLE; WATERSHED;

GREAT LAKES BASIN; MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879910503     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20189     Document Type: Article

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