Can soil water measurements at a certain depth be used to estimate mean soil water content of a soil profile at a point or at a hillslope scale?

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 516, Issue , 2014, Pages 67-75

  Hu, Wei ^b,c   Si, Bing Cheng ^a,b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Mean relative difference; Soil moisture; Spatial variability; Spearman's rank correlation coefficient; Time stability; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

LOCATION; SOIL MOISTURE;

MEAN RELATIVE DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SPEARMAN'S RANK CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; TIME STABILITY; UPSCALING;

SOIL SURVEYS;

IRRIGATION; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL WATER; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 84945173661     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.01.053     Document Type: Article

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