Characterizing soil physical properties for soil moisture monitoring with the North Carolina environment and climate observing network

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 933-943

  Pan, Weinan ^a   Boyles, R P ^a   White, J G ^a   Heitman, J L ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrology; In situ atmospheric observations; Soil moisture; Surface observations

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OBSERVATIONS; BULK DENSITY; CLAY CONTENT; COEFFICIENTS OF VARIATIONS; DATA SCREENING; DATA SETS; HETEROGENEOUS SOILS; IN-SITU; NORTH CAROLINA; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SOIL MOISTURE MONITORING; SOIL PHYSICAL PROPERTY; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL TEXTURES; SURFACE OBSERVATION; TOTAL POROSITY; TOTAL VARIANCE; WATER RETENTION;

CLIMATOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE;

SOIL SURVEYS;

DATA SET; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MONITORING SYSTEM; PARAMETERIZATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL PROPERTY; WATER CONTENT;

NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84868249789     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: 15200426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-11-00104.1     Document Type: Article

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