Retrieving soil water contents from soil temperature measurements by using linear regression

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 849-858

  Xu, Qin ^a   Zhou, Binbin ^b  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Retrieval; Soil water content

Indexed keywords

DIURNAL VARIATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL WATER; WATER CONTENT;

NORTH AMERICA; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0346277170     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02915509     Document Type: Article

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