Measurement and inference of profile soil-water dynamics at different hillslope positions in a semiarid agricultural watershed

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Green, Timothy R ^a   Erskine, Robert H ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WATERSHEDS; CONTROL PROFILES; CROP WATER USE; DIELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; DOWNSLOPE; DRYLAND; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; HILLSLOPES; HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS; JOINT EFFECT; LANDSCAPE POSITIONS; LATERAL FLOW; MANAGEMENT ZONES; MISSING DATA; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MULTI-TEMPORAL; MULTIDIMENSIONAL FLOW; NEAR-SURFACE HYDROLOGY; OVERLAND FLOW; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; RAINFED; SENSOR MEASUREMENTS; SLOPE POSITIONS; SOIL DEVELOPMENT; SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; SOIL PERMITTIVITY; SOIL PROFILES; SOIL WATER; SOIL WATER CONTENT; SOIL WATER DYNAMICS; SPACE AND TIME; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; WATER FLUX; WHEAT FIELDS;

DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LANDFORMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PLANTS (BOTANY); SENSORS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TESTING; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; ALGORITHM; DATA SET; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FLUX MEASUREMENT; HILLSLOPE; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; LANDSCAPE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PERMITTIVITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL WATER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TERRAIN; WATER USE; WATERSHED;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 83455162497     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR010074     Document Type: Article

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