An assessment of the effect of horizontal soil moisture heterogeneity on the area-average measurement of cosmic-ray neutrons

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 6450-6458

  Franz, Trenton E ^a,b   Zreda, M ^a   Ferre, T P A ^a   Rosolem, R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

hydrogeophysics; intermediate scale measurements; near surface

Indexed keywords

BINARY DISTRIBUTION; CORRELATION LENGTH SCALE; COSMIC RAY NEUTRON; DISTRIBUTED SENSOR NETWORKS; HYDROGEOPHYSICS; LAND SURFACE MODELS; NEAR SURFACES; VARIABLE SOIL MOISTURES;

COSMIC RAYS; NEUTRONS; PROBES; SENSOR NETWORKS; SOIL MOISTURE;

SOIL SURVEYS;

GAUSSIAN METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; HYDROGRAPHY; NEUTRON PROBE; SOIL MOISTURE;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84885072676     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20530     Document Type: Article

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