Spatial explicit soil moisture analysis: Pattern and its stability at small catchment scale in the loess hilly region of China

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 4091-4109

  Sun, Feixiang ^a   Lü, Yihe ^a   Fu, Bojie ^a   Ma, Zhimin ^a   Yao, Xueling ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Catchment scale; Loess plateau; Pattern stability; Soil moisture; Spatial variation

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; CATCHMENTS; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; SEDIMENTS; SOIL MOISTURE; STABILITY; STATISTICS; VEGETATION;

ARID AND SEMI-ARID REGIONS; CATCHMENT SCALE; GEOGRAPHICAL POSITIONS; LOESS PLATEAU; PATTERN STABILITY; SOIL MOISTURE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

CATCHMENT; ELEVATION; LOESS; MOISTURE CONTENT; PLATEAU; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; VEGETATION;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 84899785976     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9940     Document Type: Article

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