Forested and agricultural land use impacts on subsurface floodplain storage capacity using coupled vadose zone-saturated zone modeling

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 74, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 7215-7228

  Zell, Chris ^a   Kellner, Elliott ^b   Hubbart, Jason A ^b  

^a Water and Natural Resources Practice Group   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Floodplain storage; Groundwater modeling; Rural land use

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); DIGITAL STORAGE; FLOODS; FORESTRY; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROLOGY; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SILVER;

AGRICULTURAL LAND USE; BOTTOMLAND HARDWOOD FORESTS; FLOOD PLAINS; GROUNDWATER FLOW MODEL; GROUNDWATER MODELING; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; RURAL LAND USE; VOLUMETRIC WATER CONTENT;

LAND USE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CALIBRATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODPLAIN; FLOW MODELING; FORESTED CATCHMENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAND USE; OPTIMIZATION; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATION; PHREATIC ZONE; RIPARIAN FOREST; SILVER; SUBSURFACE FLOW; VADOSE ZONE; WATER CONTENT; WATER STORAGE;

MIDWEST; MISSOURI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84944152578     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-015-4700-4     Document Type: Article

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