Limiting relations between soil moisture and soil texture with implications for measured, modeled and remotely sensed estimates

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1757-1760

  Salvucci, G D ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFILTRATION; MOISTURE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; TRANSPIRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING;

APPROXIMATE SOLUTION; DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; INCREASING COEFFICIENTS; MOISTURE FLUXES; RICHARDS EQUATION; SCALING FACTORS; SOIL TEXTURES;

SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS;

SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEXTURE;

POWER LAW; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEXTURE;

EID: 0032523574     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL01138     Document Type: Article

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