An analysis of spatiotemporal variations of soil and vegetation moisture from a 29-year satellite-derived data set over mainland Australia

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Liu, Yi Y ^a,b   Van Dijk, Albert I J M ^b   De Jeu, Richard A M ^c   Holmes, Thomas R H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL AVERAGE; AUSTRALIA; COEFFICIENT OF CORRELATION; DATA PRODUCTS; DERIVED DATA; EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL DATA; GRID CELLS; HYDROLOGICAL VARIABLES; MOISTURE DISTRIBUTION; NEAR-SURFACE HYDROLOGY; OCEAN CIRCULATION; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; REFERENCE SENSORS; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SCALING METHOD; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL BEHAVIORS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION MOISTURE CONTENT;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CELL MEMBRANES; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SOIL MOISTURE; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION; WATER SUPPLY;

MOISTURE CONTROL;

HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SATELLITE DATA; SENSOR; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 69249105539     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007187     Document Type: Article

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