Relation between precipitation location and antecedent/ subsequent soil moisture spatial patterns

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 122, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 6319-6328

  Hsu, Hsin ^a   Lo, Min Hui ^a   Guillod, Benoit P ^b,c   Miralles, Diego G ^d   Kumar, Sanjiv ^e  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c ETH Zurich   (Netherlands)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^e AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLING; EVAPORATION; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; HETEROGENEITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85021420476     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016JD026042     Document Type: Article

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