The role of vegetation and soil properties on the spatio-temporal variability of the surface soil moisture in a maize-cropped field

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 489, Issue , 2013, Pages 148-159

  Baroni, G ^a   Ortuani, B ^b   Facchi, A ^b   Gandolfi, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agricultural field; Controlling factors; Geostatistics; Principal component analysis; Soil moisture; Spatio temporal variability

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL FIELDS; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; CONTROLLING FACTORS; GEO-STATISTICS; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; INDIRECT MEASUREMENTS; SOIL MOISTURE DYNAMICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

CROPS; IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOIL SURVEYS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEXTURES; VEGETATION;

SOIL MOISTURE;

FIELD; GEOSTATISTICS; GROWING SEASON; LEAF AREA INDEX; MAIZE; PARAMETERIZATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEXTURE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; UNSATURATED MEDIUM;

ITALY;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84876715870     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.03.007     Document Type: Article

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