Development of a china dataset of soil hydraulic parameters using pedotransfer functions for land surface modeling

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 869-887

  Dai, Yongjiu ^a   Shangguan, Wei ^a   Duan, Qingyun ^a   Liu, Baoyuan ^a   Fu, Suhua ^a   Niu, Guoyue ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LAND SURFACE; MODELING; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTION; SOIL WATER; WATER RETENTION;

CHINA;

EID: 84881535766     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-12-0149.1     Document Type: Article

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