Spatio-temporal soil moisture variability in Southwest Germany observed with a new monitoring network within the COPS domain

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 523-537

  Krauss, Liane ^a   Hauck, Christian ^a,b   Kottmeier, Christoph ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAINS; GERMANY; INSTALLATION PROCEDURES; MOISTURE FIELD; MOISTURE GRADIENT; MOISTURE VARIABILITY; MONITORING NETWORK; NEAR-SURFACE; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; REFLECTOMETRY; SENSOR OUTPUT; SITE-SPECIFIC; SOIL MOISTURE MONITORING; SOIL MOISTURE NETWORKS; SOIL MOISTURE SENSORS; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL TEXTURES; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; STUDY AREAS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY; VERTICAL PROFILE; WATER STORAGE;

MOISTURE CONTROL; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; MONITORING; SENSORS; SOIL MOISTURE; TEXTURES;

SOIL SURVEYS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; ENERGY BALANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; REFLECTOMETRY; SENSOR; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL TEXTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VERTICAL PROFILE;

GERMANY;

EID: 79951859076     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2010/0486     Document Type: Article

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