Radiative and precipitation controls on root zone soil moisture spectra

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 7546-7554

  Nakai, Taro ^a,b   Katul, Gabriel G ^a,c,d   Kotani, Ayumi ^a   Igarashi, Yasunori ^a   Ohta, Takeshi ^a   Suzuki, Masakazu ^e   Kumagai, Tomo'Omi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Duke University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

black noise; decay time scale; evaporative damping time scale; red noise; soil moisture memory; soil moisture spectra

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; DAMPING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SOIL MOISTURE; TIME MEASUREMENT; WHITE NOISE;

BLACK-NOISE; DAMPING TIME; DECAY TIME; PRECIPITATION CONTROLS; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; RED-NOISE; ROOT ZONE SOIL MOISTURES; SIMULTANEOUS PRECIPITATION;

SOIL SURVEYS;

CLIMATE MODELING; DRAINAGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MOISTURE CONTENT; RADIATIVE FORCING; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATE FOREST; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 84912079118     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061745     Document Type: Article

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