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The Use of Residence Time to Describe a Hillslope

by P. F. Crapper, CSIRO Div of Water Resources, Canberra,



Document Type: Proceeding Paper

Part of: Engineering Hydrology

Abstract:

Queueing theory has been applied to the determination of Soil Water Residence Time (SWRT) using an 18 year data set. The calculated SWRTs agree qualitatively with the lags exhibited by a 12 month running average plot of rainfall and streamflow. The characteristic SWRT curves derived for two parts of the record agreed well with each other, in spite of a significant drought during the later period.

Subject Headings: Soil water | Slopes | Residence time | Water shortage | Streamflow | Soil properties | Rainfall

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