Articles | Volume 18, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-4169-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-4169-2014
Research article
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22 Oct 2014
Research article |  | 22 Oct 2014

Development and testing of a large, transportable rainfall simulator for plot-scale runoff and parameter estimation

T. G. Wilson, C. Cortis, N. Montaldo, and J. D. Albertson

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