Persistence and memory timescales in root-zone soil moisture dynamics

Water Resources Research

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 1427-1445

  Ghannam, Khaled ^a   Nakai, Taro ^b,c   Paschalis, Athanasios ^d   Oishi, Christopher A ^e   Kotani, Ayumi ^b   Igarashi, Yasunori ^b   Kumagai, Tomo'Omi ^b   Katul, Gabriel G ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

climate; memory; persistence; rainfall; soil moisture

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MOISTURE; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RAIN; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; TIME SWITCHES;

CLIMATE; FIRST ORDER MARKOV PROCESS; PERSISTENCE; ROOT ZONE SOIL MOISTURES; SEASONAL FORECASTS; SOIL MOISTURE FLUCTUATIONS; STRETCHED EXPONENTIAL; UNDERLYING DYNAMICS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

CLIMATE EFFECT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PERSISTENCE; RAINFALL; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL COLUMN; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTICITY; THRESHOLD; TIME SERIES; TIMESCALE;

EID: 84977865448     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015WR017983     Document Type: Article

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