Modeling subsurface hillslope runoff dominated by preferential flow: One- vs. two-dimensional approximation

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Dusek, Jaromir ^a   Vogel, Tomas ^a  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; PORE PRESSURE; SOIL MOISTURE; STORMS;

DIFFUSION WAVE EQUATION; HEADWATER CATCHMENT; HILLSLOPE DISCHARGE; HYDROLOGIC RESPONSE; PREFERENTIAL PATHWAYS; SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SOIL-WATER PRESSURE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL APPROXIMATION;

RUNOFF;

BEDROCK; HILLSLOPE; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; RAINFALL; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RICHARDS EQUATION; RUNOFF; SOIL WATER; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

EID: 84903527240     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2013.05.0082     Document Type: Article

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