Plot-and watershed-scale soil moisture variability in a humid Piedmont watershed

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Tague, C ^a   Band, L ^b   Kenworthy, S ^c   Tenebaum, D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c National Energy Security Center   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; HOT SPOT; HYDROLOGIC CONTROLS; MOISTURE VARIABILITY; MOISTURE VARIATION; NEAR-SURFACE; NITRIFICATION AND DENITRIFICATION; NON LINEAR CONTROL; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL WATER; SPACE-TIME DYNAMICS; SPATIAL TEMPORALS; SPATIAL VARIANCE; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TOPOGRAPHIC WETNESS INDEX; UNDER-SAMPLING; WATERSHED SCALE; WET PERIOD;

CATCHMENTS; DENITRIFICATION; LANDFORMS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; SOIL MOISTURE; UNDERWATER SOILS; WATERSHEDS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CATCHMENT; DENITRIFICATION; DROUGHT; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; NITROGEN CYCLE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL WATER; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATERSHED;

ITALY; PIEDMONT [ITALY];

EID: 78650439093     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008078     Document Type: Article

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