Interplay of riparian forest and groundwater in the hillslope hydrology of sudanian west africa (northern Benin)

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 5079-5096

  Richard, A ^a   Galle, S ^a   Descloitres, M ^a   Cohard, J M ^a   Vandervaere, J P ^a   Seguis L ^b   Peugeot, C ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HILLSLOPE HYDROLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING; LATERAL WATER FLOW; LOCAL HYDRODYNAMICS; MULTI-CRITERIA APPROACH; TRANSPIRATION RATES; VIRTUAL EXPERIMENTS;

DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FORESTRY; HYDRODYNAMICS; SOFTWARE TESTING; SOIL MOISTURE; TRANSPIRATION; VIRTUAL REALITY; WETLANDS;

GROUNDWATER;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HILLSLOPE; RIPARIAN FOREST; VADOSE ZONE; WATER BUDGET; WATER LEVEL; WATER TABLE;

COMPUTER PROGRAMS; DROUGHT; FORESTRY; GROUND WATER; HYDRODYNAMICS; MOISTURE; SOIL; TESTING; TRANSPIRATION; WETLANDS;

BENIN [WEST AFRICA];

EID: 84890522622     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-17-5079-2013     Document Type: Article

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