Simulated unsaturated flow processes after wildfire and interactions with slope aspect

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 8090-8107

  Ebel, Brian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIELD OBSERVATIONS; GROUND WATER RECHARGE; HYDROLOGIC RESPONSE; INVERSE ESTIMATION; SOIL WATER RETENTION; SOIL-WATER CONTENT; SUBSURFACE CONDITIONS; VIRTUAL EXPERIMENTS;

EVAPORATION; GROUNDWATER; NUMERICAL MODELS; SOILS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

FIRES;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; RECHARGE; SLOPE; SOIL WATER; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TRANSPIRATION; UNSATURATED FLOW; WILDFIRE;

BOULDER; COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84896738886     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014129     Document Type: Article

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