Adopting drought indices for estimating soil moisture: A North Carolina case study

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2002, Pages

  Sims, Aaron P ^a,b   Niyogi, Dev Dutta S ^a   Raman, Sethu ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCNC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; MOISTURE; SOILS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESS; MOISTURE VARIATION; NORTH CAROLINA , USA; NUMERICAL WEATHER FORECASTING; PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDICES; REGRESSION EQUATION; SOIL MOISTURE AVAILABILITY; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX;

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 0037092291     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013343     Document Type: Article

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