Temporal variability of soil water content in a semiarid hillslope across time scales: Effect of soil surface condition

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 112, Issue PA, 2015, Pages 64-74

  Sela, Shai ^a   Svoray, Tal ^a   Assouline, Shmuel ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Modeling; Surface sealing; Temporal variability; Water content

Indexed keywords

HILLSLOPE; LIMITING FACTOR; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL SURFACE; SOIL WATER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIMESCALE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 84909954632     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: 1095922X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2014.05.015     Document Type: Article

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