Soil water-holding capacity assessment in terms of the average annual water balance in southern Spain

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 317-328

  Vanderlinden, Karl ^a   Giráldez, Juan V ^b   van Meirvenne, Marc ^c  

^a IFAPA CENTRO EL TORUÑO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; ANDALUSIA; ANNUAL WATER BALANCE; AVERAGE VALUES; FIELD CAPACITY; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; GEO-STATISTICS; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATORIES; MORPHOLOGICAL DATA; SOIL MAPS; SOIL PROFILES; SOIL WATER BALANCE; SOUTHERN SPAIN; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; WATER BALANCE; WATER BALANCE MODELS; WATER HOLDING CAPACITY;

METEOROLOGY; WATER SUPPLY;

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 44649129632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2004.0099     Document Type: Article

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