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Estimation of Effective Hydrologic Properties of Soils from Observations of Vegetation Density

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Tellers, Tobin E.; Eagleson, Peter S.
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Abstract
An existing one-dimensional model of the annual water balance is reviewed. Slight improvements are made in the method of calculating the bare soil component of evaporation, and in the way surface retention is handled. A natural selection hypothesis, which specifies the equilibrium vegetation density for a given, water-limited, climate-soil system, is verified through comparisons with observed data and is employed in the annual water balance of watersheds in Clinton, Ma., and Santa Paula, Ca., to estimate effective areal average soil properties. Comparison of CDF's of annual basin yield derived using these soil properties with observed CDF's provides excellent verification of the soil-selection procedure. This method of parameterization of the land surface should be useful with present global circulation models, enabling them to account for both the non-linearity in the relationship between soil moisture flux and soil moisture concentration, and the variability of soil properties from place to place over the earth's surface.
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Prepared with the support of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Grant NSG 5306
Date issued
1980-03
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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142995
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Cambridge, Mass. : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory for Water Resources and Hydrodynamics
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254
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R (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil Engineering) ; 80-7.Report (Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory for Water Resources and Hydrodynamics) ; 254.

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