Influence of soil textural properties on hydrologic fluxes in the Mississippi river basin

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 29, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 4638-4655

  Livneh, Ben ^a   Kumar, Rohini ^b   Samaniego, Luis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hydrologic extremes; Hydropedology; Pedotransfer functions; Regional scale land surface modelling; Soil moisture and runoff persistence; Soil textural uncertainty; STATSGO2 and HWSD

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DROUGHT; FLOODS; MOISTURE; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

HYDROLOGIC EXTREMES; HYDROPEDOLOGY; LAND SURFACE MODELLING; PEDO-TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; STATSGO2;

SOILS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTION; RUNOFF; SOFTWARE; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL TEXTURE;

EID: 84942194189     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10601     Document Type: Article

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