Spatiotemporal analysis of soil moisture observations within a Tibetan mesoscale area and its implication to regional soil moisture measurements

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 482, Issue , 2013, Pages 92-104

  Zhao, Long ^a,b,c   Yang, Kun ^a   Qin, Jun ^a   Chen, Yingying ^a   Tang, Wenjun ^a   Montzka, Carsten ^c   Wu, Hui ^a,b   Lin, Changgui ^a,b   Han, Menglei ^a,b   Vereecken, Harry ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Most representative site; Number of required sites; Optimal combination of sites; Soil moisture network; Tibetan plateau

Indexed keywords

MOST REPRESENTATIVE SITE; NUMBER OF REQUIRED SITES; OPTIMAL COMBINATION; SOIL MOISTURE NETWORKS; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

FROZEN SOILS; SOIL MOISTURE;

SOIL SURVEYS;

CORRELATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; MOISTURE CONTENT; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UPSCALING;

CHINA; XIZANG;

EID: 84873570001     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.12.033     Document Type: Article

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