On bimodality in warm season soil moisture observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Teuling, Adriaan J ^a   Uijlenhoet, Remko ^a   Troch, Peter A ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

BIMODALITY; SOIL MOISTURE DYNAMICS; WARM SEASON SOIL MOISTURE;

SOILS;

BIMODAL ASSOCIATION; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL MOISTURE;

ILLINOIS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 24944518330     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023223     Document Type: Article

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