Scale effects in estimating the variogram and implications for soil hydrology

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 153-167

  Skøien, Jon Olav ^a   Blöschl, Günter ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGY; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; SAMPLING BIAS; SCALE EFFECT; SOIL ANALYSIS; VARIOGRAM;

EID: 33749251165     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2005.0069     Document Type: Article

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