Application of a soil moisture diagnostic equation for estimating root-zone soil moisture in arid and semi-arid regions

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 524, Issue , 2015, Pages 296-310

  Pan, Feifei ^a   Nieswiadomy, Michael ^a   Qian, Shuan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Potential evapotranspiration; Precipitation; Sinusoidal soil moisture loss function; Soil moisture; Soil moisture diagnostic equation; Soil moisture loss function

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; CROPS; ERRORS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SCHEDULING; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; SUN; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

ARID AND SEMI-ARID REGIONS; DOWNWARD SOLAR RADIATION; MEAN AIR TEMPERATURES; MOISTURE LOSS; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; ROOT ZONE SOIL MOISTURES; VOLUMETRIC SOIL MOISTURES;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ARID REGION; DATA SET; GROWTH RATE; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RHIZOSPHERE; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL MOISTURE;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84924656167     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.02.044     Document Type: Article

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