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Multi‐scale dynamics of soil moisture variability observed during SGP'97
Author(s) -
Crow Wade T.,
Wood Eric F.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/1999gl010880
Subject(s) - water content , environmental science , scale (ratio) , moisture , range (aeronautics) , spatial variability , soil science , spatial ecology , soil water , atmospheric sciences , hydrology (agriculture) , geology , meteorology , geography , statistics , mathematics , cartography , geotechnical engineering , ecology , materials science , composite material , biology
Data sets produced by the 1997 Southern Great Plains Field Experiment (SGP'97) provide information about surface soil moisture dynamics across a range of scales. A multi‐scale analysis of the data reveals a qualitatively different relationship between soil moisture means and soil moisture spatial variances when variability is sampled at fine (<1 km) versus coarse (>10 km) spatial scales.