Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Recent submissions

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    • A Test of Ecological Optimality for Semiarid Vegetation 

      Salvucci, Guido D.; Eagleson, Peter S. (Cambridge, Mass. : Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory, Hydrology and Water Resource Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1992-05)
      Three ecological optimality hypotheses (Eagleson, 1978 and 1982) which have utility in parameter reduction and estimation in a climate-soil-vegetation water balance model are reviewed and tested. The first hypothesis ...

    • The Implementation and Validation of Improved Landsurface Hydrology in an Atmospheric General Circulation Model 

      Johnson, Kevin D.; Entekhabi, Dara; Eagleson, Peter S. (Cambridge, Mass. : Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory, Hydrology and Water Resource Systems, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991-10)
      New landsurface hydrological parameterizations are implemented into the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) General Circulation Model (GCM). These parameterizations are: 1) runoff and evapotranspiration functions ...

    • Atmospheric Water Vapor Transport: Estimation of Continental Precipitation Recycling and Parameterization of a Simple Climate Model 

      Brubaker, Kaye L.; Entekhabi, Dara; Eagleson, Peter S. (Cambridge, Mass. : Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory, Hydrology and Water Resource Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1991-07)
      The advective transport of atmospheric water vapor and its role in global hydrology and the water balance of continental regions are discussed and explored. The data set consists of ten years of global wind and humidity ...