The role of soil-surface sealing, microtopography, and vegetation patches in rainfall-runoff processes in semiarid areas

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 5585-5599

  Chen, L ^a   Sela, S ^b   Svoray, T ^b   Assouline, S ^c  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

infiltration; microtopography; modeling; runoff; semiarid environments; soil surface sealing; vegetation

Indexed keywords

INFILTRATION; MODELS; RAIN; SEALS; SOILS; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION;

CUMULATIVE INFILTRATIONS; MICRO TOPOGRAPHY; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RAINFALL-RUNOFF PROCESS; RAINFALL-RUNOFF RELATIONSHIP; SEMI-ARID ENVIRONMENTS; SOIL SURFACE SEALING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE;

RUNOFF;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HILLSLOPE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INFILTRATION; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; OVERLAND FLOW; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL SURFACE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VEGETATION COVER; WATER FLOW; WATER RESOURCE; WATERSHED;

EID: 84883704324     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20360     Document Type: Article

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