Spatio-temporal variability in remotely sensed surface soil moisture and its relationship with precipitation and evapotranspiration during the growing season in the Loess Plateau, China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1809-1820

  Li, Xiaoying ^a,b   Liu, Lichen ^d   Duan, Zhenghu ^b   Wang, Na ^c  

^a GANSU AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c Shaanxi Provincial Meteorological Bureau   (China)

^d LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Loess Plateau; Regional scale; Remote sensing; SMOS; Surface soil moisture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895074360     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-013-2585-7     Document Type: Article

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