Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Recent submissions

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    • A Physiological Explanation for Vegetation Ecotones in Eastern North America 

      Arris, L. L.; Eagleson, P. S. (Cambridge, Mass. : Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory, Hydrology and Water Resource Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1989-06)
      Prediction of the vegetative cover of land surfaces as climatic conditions change is an important aspect of general circulation models that has not been adequately explored. In this study, a model is developed for the ...

    • The Analysis of River Basins and Channel Networks Using Digital Terrain Data 

      Tarboton, David G.; Bras, Rafael L.; Rodriguez-Iturbe, Ignacio (Cambridge, Mass. : Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory, Hydrology and Water Resource Systems, , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1989-09)
      This work examines patterns of regularity and scale in landform and channel networks. Digital elevation model data sets from throughout the United States are used as a data source. First we consider the two-dimensional ...

    • Landsurface Hydrology Parameterization for Atmospheric General Circulation Models: Inclusion of Subgrid Scale Spatial Variability and Screening with a Simple Climate Model 

      Entekhabi, Dara; Eagleson, Peter S. (Cambridge, Mass. : Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory, Hydrology and Water Resource Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1989-09)
      Parameterizations are developed for the representation of subgrid hydrologic processes in atmospheric general circulation models. Reasonable a priori probability density functions of the spatial variability of soil moisture ...