Summer soil moisture regulated by precipitation frequency in China

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Piao, Shilong ^a   Yin, Lei ^b   Wang, Xuhui ^a   Ciais, Philippe ^c   Peng, Shushi ^a   Shen, Zehao ^a   Seneviratne, Sonia I ^d  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Drought; Precipitation change; Precipitation frequency; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; SOIL MOISTURE;

COEFFICIENT OF CORRELATION; DAILY PRECIPITATIONS; GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; PRECIPITATION FREQUENCY; SOIL MOISTURE DYNAMICS; SOIL MOISTURE MEASUREMENT;

SOIL SURVEYS;

EID: 76149086847     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/044012     Document Type: Article

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