The response of infiltration depth, evaporation, and soil water replenishment to rainfall in mobile dunes in the Horqin Sandy Land, Northern China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 8699-8708

  Liu, Xinping ^a,b   He, Yuhui ^a,b   Zhang, Tonghui ^a,b   Zhao, Xueyong ^a,b   Li, Yuqiang ^a,b   Zhang, Lamei ^a,b   Wei, Shuilian ^a,b   Yun, Jianying ^a,b   Yue, Xiangfei ^a,b  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Evaporation; Infiltration depth; Mobile dunes; Soil water replenishment

Indexed keywords

EVAPORATION; INFILTRATION; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

GROUND SURFACES; HORQIN SANDY LANDS; MOBILE DUNES; RAINFALL INFILTRATION; SIMULATED RAINFALL; SOIL WATER; SOIL WATER CONTENT; WATER DISTRIBUTIONS;

RAIN;

DUNE; EVAPORATION; INFILTRATION; RAINFALL; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL SURFACE; SOIL WATER;

CHINA; HORQIN DESERT;

EID: 84929960392     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-015-4125-0     Document Type: Article

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