Use of the dual-probe heat-pulse technique to monitor soil water content in the vadose zone

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 572-579

  Ochsner, Tyson E ^a   Horton, Robert ^b   Ren, Tusheng ^c  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; NITROGEN FIXATION; PROBES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE;

AVERAGE DIFFERENCE; CONSTANT VALUES; FIELD APPLICATION; FIELD CONDITIONS; SOIL VOLUMETRIC WATER CONTENTS; SOIL WATER CONTENT; SOYBEAN [GLYCINE MAX (L.) MERR.]; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATION;

SOILS;

EID: 3142713621     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/2.4.572     Document Type: Article

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