Temporal evolution of soil moisture statistical fractal and controls by soil texture and regional groundwater flow

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 86, Issue , 2015, Pages 155-169

  Ji, Xinye ^a   Shen, Chaopeng ^a   Riley, William J ^b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Groundwater flow; Hydrologic scaling; Hysteresis; PAWS+CLM; Soil moisture statistical fractal

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYSTERESIS; LAND USE; MOISTURE; SCALING LAWS; SOIL MOISTURE;

CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; DIFFERENT RESOLUTIONS; HYDROLOGIC SCALING; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PAWS+CLM; REGIONAL GROUNDWATER FLOW; REMOTELY-SENSED OBSERVATIONS; SHALLOW WATER TABLES;

SOILS;

FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYSTERESIS; RAINFALL; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEXTURE; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

MIDWEST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84945555176     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2015.09.027     Document Type: Article

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