Bare soil hydrological balance model “MHYSAN”: Calibration and validation using SAR moisture products and continuous thetaprobe network measurements over bare agricultural soils (Tunisia)

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 139, Issue , 2017, Pages 11-25

  Gorrab, Azza ^a,b   Simonneaux, Vincent ^b   Zribi, Mehrez ^b   Saadi, Sameh ^a,b   Baghdadi, Nicolas ^c   Lili Chabaane, Zohra ^a   Fanise, Pascal ^b  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL AGRONOMIQUE DE TUNISIE   (Tunisia)

^b CESBIO   (France)

^c UMR TETIS   (France)

Author keywords

Bare soil hydrological model; Continuous soil moisture measurements; Satellite soil moisture products; Semi arid area

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BARE SOIL; CALIBRATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MODEL VALIDATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEXTURE; TERRASAR-X;

TUNISIA;

EID: 85007164476     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: 1095922X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2016.12.005     Document Type: Article

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