Rainfall threshold for hillslope outflow

Rainfall threshold for hillslope outflow: an emergent property of flow pathway connectivity P. Lehmann, C. Hinz, G. McGrath, H. J. Tromp-van Meerveld, and J. J. McDonnell Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland School of Earth and Geographical Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland Department of Forest Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis Oregon, USA now at: Laboratory of Soil and Environmental Sciences, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland Received: 14 July 2006 – Accepted: 11 September 2006 – Published: 20 September 2006 Correspondence to: P. Lehmann ([email protected])