Long-term trend and variability of soil moisture over East Asia

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 120, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 8658-8670

  Cheng, Shanjun ^a   Guan, Xiaodan ^a   Huang, Jianping ^a   Ji, Fei ^a   Guo, Ruixia ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Decreasing precipitation is a major reason in triggering the soil drying; Soil drying is enhanced almost twofold by increasing temperature; The soil moisture obviously decreased from 1948 to 2010 over East Asia

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL WARMING; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TREND ANALYSIS; WATER AVAILABILITY;

CHINA; LAKE BAIKAL; MONGOLIA; NORTH CHINA PLAIN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84943450279     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015JD023206     Document Type: Article

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