Seasonal change of soil moisture in Mongolia: Its climatology and modelling

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1143-1152

  Nandintsetseg, Banzragch ^a   Shinoda, Masato ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drought; Mongolia; Seasonal change; Soil moisture; Water balance model

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DROUGHT; COLD CLIMATE; DECISION MAKERS; FOREST-STEPPE ZONE; GOBI DESERT; GRAVIMETRIC METHODS; INTERANNUAL; LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS; MOISTURE VARIATION; MONGOLIA; SEASONAL CHANGES; SEASONAL PATTERNS; SEASONALITY; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOWMELT; SOIL FREEZING; SOIL LAYER; SOIL MOISTURE DYNAMICS; THREE PHASIS; VEGETATION ZONE; WARM SEASONS; WATER BALANCE MODEL; WATER BALANCE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROUGHT; DRYING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FREEZING; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LANDFORMS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER SUPPLY;

SOIL SURVEYS;

DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOREST-STEPPE; GRAVIMETRY; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MOISTURE CONTENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONALITY; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER BUDGET;

GOBI DESERT; MONGOLIA;

STIPA;

EID: 79958714126     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2134     Document Type: Article

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