Observed and simulated hydrologic response for a first-order catchment during extreme rainfall 3 years after wildfire disturbance

Water Resources Research

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 9367-9389

  Ebel, Brian A ^a   Rengers, Francis K ^a   Tucker, Gregory E ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

disturbance; disturbance hydrology; extreme event; modeling; runoff generation; wildfire; wildland fire

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; FIRES; INFILTRATION; MODELS; PARAMETERIZATION; RAIN; SOILS; STREAM FLOW;

DISTURBANCE; EXTREME EVENTS; RUNOFF GENERATION; WILDFIRE; WILDLAND FIRE;

RUNOFF;

CATCHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EXTREME EVENT; HEADWATER; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; INFILTRATION; RAINFALL; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RUNOFF; SOIL PROPERTY; WILDFIRE;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85006421118     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016WR019110     Document Type: Article

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