Absolute versus temporal anomaly and percent of saturation soil moisture spatial variability for six networks worldwide

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 5560-5576

  Brocca, L ^a   Zucco, G ^a   Mittelbach, H ^b   Moramarco, T ^a   Seneviratne, S I ^b  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^b ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

absolute soil moisture; large scale networks; soil moisture; spatial temporal variability; statistical analysis; temporal anomalies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903802843     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR015684     Document Type: Article

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