Geostatistical characterisation of soil moisture patterns in the Tarrawarra catchment

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 205, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 20-37

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Correlation structure; Soil moisture; Time domain reflectometry; Variogram

Indexed keywords

GEOSTATISTICS; SOIL MOSITURE; TDR;

AUSTRALIA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION METHODS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

GEOSTATISTICS; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; VARIOGRAMS;

SOILS;

EID: 0032567832     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1694(97)00142-X     Document Type: Article

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