Modeling the impacts of soil hydraulic properties on temporal stability of soil moisture under a semi-arid climate

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 519, Issue PA, 2014, Pages 1214-1224

  Wang, Tiejun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Semi arid climate; Soil hydraulic property; Soil moisture; Temporal stability; Vadose zone model

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; GROUNDWATER; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; SAND;

NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SEMI-ARID CLIMATE; SOIL HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS; SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL STABILITY; VADOSE ZONE MODELING;

SOIL MOISTURE;

HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VADOSE ZONE;

EID: 84949116537     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.08.052     Document Type: Article

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