The response of soil moisture content to rainfall events in semi-arid area of Inner Mongolia

Procedia Environmental Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1970-1978

  Zhang, Yong ^a   Liu, Junshan ^a   Xu, Xia ^a   Tian, Yuqiang ^a   Li, Yue ^a   Gao, Qiong ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Evapotranspiration; Runoff; Semi arid area; Slope positions; Soil water storage

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT SLOPES; DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; INNER MONGOLIA; INPUT AREA; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; RAINFALL EVENT; SEMI-ARID AREA; SLOPE POSITIONS; SOIL MOISTURE CONTENT; SOIL WATER STORAGE; VEGETATION COVER; WATER BALANCE;

ARID REGIONS; ECOSYSTEMS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; RAIN; RUNOFF; VEGETATION; WATER SUPPLY;

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 79951808448     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18780296     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proenv.2010.10.211     Document Type: Conference Paper

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