Comparison of soil moisture dynamics between a tropical rain forest and a tropical seasonal forest in Southeast Asia: Impact of seasonal and year-to-year variations in rainfall

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Kumagai, Tomo'omi ^a   Yoshifuji, Natsuko ^a   Tanaka, Nobuaki ^b   Suzuki, Masakazu ^c   Kume, Tomonori ^a,d  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AS-SOILS; DRY SEASONS; ECOHYDROLOGICAL MODEL; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FORCING TERMS; MODEL PARAMETERS; MODEL RESULTS; PHYSICAL MEANINGS; PLANT WATER; RAINFALL STATISTICS; ROOTING DEPTHS; SOIL MOISTURE DYNAMICS; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; WET SEASON;

DROUGHT; DYNAMICS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GROUNDWATER; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; PERMITTIVITY; RAIN; SOIL MOISTURE; TROPICS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

DRY SEASON; ECOHYDROLOGY; EL NINO; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFOREST; ROOTING; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEXTURE; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER USE; WET SEASON;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 67649875656     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007307     Document Type: Article

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