On the relationship between mean and variance of soil moisture fields

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 235-242

  Pan, Feifei ^a   Peters Lidard, Christa D ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Drainage; Evaporation; Field capacity; Soil moisture; Soil particle size distribution; Soil texture; Spatial variability; Wilting point

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DRAINAGE; EVAPORATION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

SOIL PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL TEXTURE; SPATIAL VARIABILITY;

SOIL MOISTURE;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DRAINAGE; EVAPORATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; SOIL MOISTURE;

DRAINAGE; EVAPORATION; FIELD CAPACITY; PARTICLE SIZE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEXTURE; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 42049111216     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2007.00150.x     Document Type: Article

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