Contrasting roles of interception and transpiration in the hydrological cycle – Part 2: Moisture recycling

Earth System Dynamics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 471-489

  Van Der Ent, R J ^a   Wang Erlandsson, L ^a,b   Keys, P W ^b,c   Savenije, H H G ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and School of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; EVAPORATION; LAND USE; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER RECYCLING; WATER RESOURCES;

ATMOSPHERIC RESIDENCE TIME; COMPLEX EFFECTS; DIRECT-EVAPORATION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; LAND EVAPORATION; LAND-USE CHANGE; MOISTURE EVAPORATION; WATER EVAPORATION;

TRANSPIRATION;

EVAPORATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; OPEN WATER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATER RESOURCE;

EID: 84908030738     PISSN: 21904979     EISSN: 21904987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/esd-5-471-2014     Document Type: Article

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