Physical controls of near-surface soil moisture across varying spatial scales in an agricultural landscape during SMEX02

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Joshi, Champa ^a   Mohanty, Binayak P ^a  

^a Texas A and M University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION LENGTHS; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; FIELD SCALE; GEOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; HYDROCLIMATIC; IN-SITU; LAND COVER; MIXED EFFECTS; MOISTURE DATA; MOISTURE VARIABILITY; MULTIPLE SCALE; NEAR-SURFACE; PHYSICAL CONTROL; PROBE-BASED; REGIONAL SCALE; REMOTE SENSING DATA; ROLLING TOPOGRAPHY; SOIL MOISTURE DYNAMICS; SOIL TEXTURES; SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS; SPATIAL SCALE; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; SUB-HUMID; TOTAL VARIANCE; VEGETATION PARAMETERS; WATERSHED SCALE;

AGRICULTURE; DYNAMICS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LANDFORMS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; NANOFLUIDICS; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TEXTURES; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION; WATERSHEDS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CORRELATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GEOSTATISTICS; LAND COVER; PASTURE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEXTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

GREAT PLAINS; IOWA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78649928269     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009152     Document Type: Article

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