Role of Runoff-Infiltration Partitioning and Resolved Overland Flow on Land-Atmosphere Feedbacks: A Case Study with the WRF-Hydro Coupled Modeling System for West Africa

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1489-1516

  Arnault, Joel ^a   Wagner, Sven ^a   Rummler, Thomas ^a   Fersch, Benjamin ^b   Bliefernicht, Jan ^a   Andresen, Sabine ^a   Kunstmann, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INFILTRATION; OVERLAND FLOW; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RIVER FLOW; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; STREAMFLOW; WATER BUDGET;

BURKINA FASO; SISSILI;

EID: 84982786901     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-15-0089.1     Document Type: Article

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