Temporal stability of soil water contents: A review of data and analyses

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Vanderlinden, Karl ^a,e   Vereecken, Harry ^b   Hardelauf, Horst ^b   Herbst, Michael ^b   Martínez, Gonzalo ^c,e   Cosh, Michael H ^d   Pachepsky, Yakov A ^e  

^a IFAPA CENTRO EL TORUÑO   (Spain)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^e U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLING FACTORS; DOMINANT FACTOR; MEASUREMENT DESIGNS; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SOIL WATER CONTENT; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICAL MODELS; TEMPORAL SCALE; TEMPORAL STABILITY; UNDERLYING MECHANISM;

SOIL MOISTURE; STATISTICS; WATER CONTENT;

FACTOR ANALYSIS;

DATA SET; GAUSSIAN METHOD; LITERATURE REVIEW; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SOIL WATER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STABILIZATION; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

AVES;

EID: 84870447709     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2011.0178     Document Type: Review

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