U.S. climate reference network soil moisture observations with triple redundancy: Measurement variability

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Palecki, Michael A ^a   Bell, Jesse E ^a,b  

^a NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF SOILS; INSTALLATION EFFECTS; PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT; REFERENCE NETWORK; SOIL MOISTURE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE SKIN TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE PROBES; WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DROUGHT; LASERS; PROBES; REDUNDANCY; SENSORS; SOIL MOISTURE; SUN;

SOIL SURVEYS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DROUGHT; INSTALLATION; LAND USE CHANGE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PROBE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SENSOR; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; WEATHER STATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84878122876     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2012.0158     Document Type: Article

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