Estimating soil organic carbon stocks of Swiss forest soils by robust external-drift kriging

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1197-1210

  Nussbaum, M ^a   Papritz, A ^a   Baltensweiler, A ^b   Walthert, L ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOREGION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST SOIL; KRIGING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROFILE; TOPSOIL;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84903773402     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-7-1197-2014     Document Type: Article

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