Screening variability and change of soil moisture under wide-ranging climate conditions: Snow dynamics effects

Ambio

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 6-16

  Verrot, Lucile ^a   Destouni, Georgia ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climate change; Groundwater; Hydrological basin; Landscape scale; Snow dynamics; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; MELTING; RIVER BASIN; SNOWMELT; SOIL MOISTURE;

NORRSTROM; PITE BASIN; STOCKHOLM [SWEDEN]; SWEDEN;

SNOW; SOIL;

CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; SOIL;

CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; SNOW; SOIL;

EID: 84920829731     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-014-0583-y     Document Type: Article

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