Issues related to low resolution modeling of soil moisture: Experience with the PLACE model

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 13, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 161-181

  Boone, Aaron ^a,b   Wetzel, Peter J ^b  

^a SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PILPS MODEL; PLACE MODEL; SOIL HYDROLOGY; SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 0030153353     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0921-8181(95)00044-5     Document Type: Article

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