How well do indicator variograms capture the spatial connectivity of soil moisture?

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1851-1868

  Western, Andrew W ^a   Blöschl, Günter ^b   Grayson, Rodger B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION LENGTH; INDICATOR VARIOGRAMS; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL CONNECTIVITY;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MOISTURE; SOIL SURVEYS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

HYDROLOGY;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; GEOSTATISTICS; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; VARIOGRAM;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0032532857     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1085(19981015)12:12<1851::AID-HYP670>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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