The impact of vertical measurement depth on the information content of soil moisture for latent heat flux estimation

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 2419-2430

  Qiu, Jianxiu ^a   Crow, Wade T ^b   Nearing, Grey S ^c  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Entropy; Evapotranspiration; Fluxes; Physical meteorology and climatology; Soil moisture; Surface fluxes

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LATENT HEAT FLUX; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE FLUX;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84990848548     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-16-0044.1     Document Type: Article

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