Soil moisture: A central and unifying theme in physical geography

Soil moisture is a critical component of the earth system and plays an integrative role among the various subfields of physical geography. This paper highlights not just how soil moisture affects atmospheric, geomorphic, hydrologic, and biologic processes but that it lies at the intersection of these areas of scientific inquiry. Soil moisture impacts earth surface processes in such a way that it creates an obvious synergistic relationship among the various subfields of physical geography. The dispersive and cohesive properties of soil moisture also make it an important variable in regional and microclimatic analyses, landscape denudation and change through weathering, runoff generation and partitioning, mass wasting, and sediment transport. Thus, this paper serves as a call to use research in soil moisture as an integrative and unifying theme in physical geography.

[1]  R. Horton.  The Rôle of infiltration in the hydrologic cycle , 1933 .

[2]  E. Russell,et al.  Soil Physics , 1941, Nature.

[3]  C. W. Thornthwaite.  An Approach Toward a Rational Classification of Climate , 1948 .

[4]  W. S. Chepil,et al.  Influence of Moisture on Erodibility of Soil by Wind1 , 1956 .

[5]  T. Kozlowski.  Water Relations and Growth of Trees , 1958 .

[6]  C. W. Thornthwaite.  THE TASK AHEAD1 , 1961 .

[7]  Y. Tsukamoto.  Storm Discharge from an Experimental Watershed , 1963 .

[8]  P. Belly,et al.  Sand movement by wind , 1964 .

[9]  F. Bisal,et al.  INFLUENCE OF MOISTURE ON ERODIBILITY OF SOIL BY WIND , 1966 .

[10]  Mike Kirkby,et al.  THROUGHFLOW, OVERLAND FLOW AND EROSION , 1967 .

[11]  R. D. Black,et al.  Partial Area Contributions to Storm Runoff in a Small New England Watershed , 1970 .

[12]  I. Smalley.  COHESION OF SOIL PARTICLES AND THE INTRINSIC RESISTANCE OF SIMPLE SOIL SYSTEMS TO WIND EROSION , 1970 .

[13]  H. S. Horn.  The adaptive geometry of trees , 1971 .

[14]  H. Peplau.  A task ahead. , 1971, The American journal of nursing.

[15]  J. R. Mackay,et al.  THE WORLD OF UNDERGROUND ICE , 1972 .

[16]  A. S. Thom,et al.  Momentum, mass and heat exchange of vegetation , 1972 .

[17]  J. Grove.  THE INCIDENCE OF LANDSLIDES, AVALANCHES, AND FLOODS IN WESTERN NORWAY DURING THE LITT'LE ICE AGE , 1972 .

[18]  J. N. Svasek,et al.  Measurements of sand transport by wind on a natural beach , 1974 .

[19]  Julia Walker,et al.  The effect of soil moisture on circulation and rainfall in a tropical model , 1977 .

[20]  J. Mather.  The climatic water budget in environmental analysis , 1978 .

[21]  John A. Milburn,et al.  Water flow in plants , 1979 .

[22]  M. Sharma,et al.  Spatial variability of infiltration in a watershed , 1980 .

[23]  R. Pielke,et al.  Simulation of the effects of surface fluxes of heat and moisture in a mesoscale numerical model: 1. Soil layer , 1981 .

[24]  Jane M. Soons,et al.  GEOCRYOLOGY, A SURVEY OF PERIGLACIAL PROCESSES AND ENVIRONMENTS , 1981 .

[25]  D. Rind,et al.  The Influence of Ground Moisture Conditions in North America on Summer Climate as Modeled in the GISS GCM , 1982 .

[26]  J. Shukla,et al.  Influence of Land-Surface Evapotranspiration on the Earth's Climate , 1982, Science.

[27]  Da‐Lin Zhang,et al.  A High-Resolution Model of the Planetary Boundary Layer—Sensitivity Tests and Comparisons with SESAME-79 Data , 1982 .

[28]  J. Pitts.  The temporal and spatial development of landslides in the axmouth-lyme regis undercliffs national nature reserve, Devon , 1983 .

[29]  E. Engman.  Principles of Forest Hydrology , 1983 .

[30]  John L. Innes,et al.  Lichenometric dating of debris‐flow deposits in the Scottish Highlands , 1983 .

[31]  T. Hinckley,et al.  Temperature-Induced Change in the Water Relations of Abies amabilis (Dougl.) Forbes. , 1984, Plant physiology.

[32]  K. Horikawa,et al.  SAND TRANSPORT BY WIND ON A WET SAND SURFACE , 1984 .

[33]  R. Pielke,et al.  Evaluation of Soil Moisture Effects on the Generation and Modification of Mesoscale Circulations , 1984 .

[34]  A. Brazel,et al.  Temporal and spatial characteristics of Arizona dust storms (1965-1980) , 1984 .

[35]  Syukuro Manabe,et al.  The Effect of Soil Moisture on the Short-Term Climate and Hydrology Change—A Numerical Experiment , 1984 .

[36]  William G. Nickling,et al.  Dust storms and their relation to moisture in the Sonoran-Mojave desert region of the south-western United States , 1987 .

[37]  R. D. Sarre,et al.  Aeolian sand transport , 1987 .

[38]  D. Thomas,et al.  Wind as a Geological Process on Earth, Mars, Venus and Titan , 1988 .

[39]  William G. Nickling,et al.  A THEORETICAL AND WIND TUNNEL INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF CAPILLARY WATER ON THE ENTRAINMENT OF SEDIMENT BY WIND , 1989 .

[40]  Roger A. Pielke,et al.  A parameterization of heterogeneous land surfaces for atmospheric numerical models and its impact on regional meteorology , 1989 .

[41]  D. Erickson,et al.  Soil Moisture and the Persistence of North American Drought , 1989 .

[42]  Evelyne Richard,et al.  An investigation of mesoscale flows induced by vegetation inhomogeneities using an evapotranspiration model calibrated against HAPEX-MOBILHY data. , 1989 .

[43]  Nicholas Sitar,et al.  Hydrologic conditions leading to debris-flow initiation , 1990 .

[44]  A. Bárdossy,et al.  Fuzzy regression in hydrology , 1990 .

[45]  Guy De Moor.  Wind as a geological process on Earth, Mars, Venus and Titan (naar R. Greeley & J.D. Iversen) , 1990 .

[46]  Pierre Y. Julien,et al.  Similarity and length scale for spatially varied overland flow. , 1990 .

[47]  F. Nelson,et al.  The zero‐curtain effect: Heat and mass transfer across an isothermal region in freezing soil , 1990 .

[48]  David J. Stensrud,et al.  Observed Effects of Landscape Variability on Convective Clouds , 1990 .

[49]  D. Sherman.  Evaluation of aeolian sand transport equations using intertidal‐zone measurements, Saunton Sands, England , 1990 .

[50]  M. Durocher.  Monitoring spatial variability of forest interception , 1990 .

[51]  C. Chancey,et al.  Size segregation during aeolian saltation on sand dunes , 1990 .

[52]  J. Mather.  A HISTORY OF HYDROCLIMATOLOGY , 1991 .

[53]  Thomas A. McMahon,et al.  Physically based hydrologic modeling: 2. Is the concept realistic? , 1992 .

[54]  C. Willmott,et al.  A More Rational Climatic Moisture Index , 1992 .

[55]  R. Arritt,et al.  Nonclassical mesoscale circulations caused by surface sensible heat-flux gradients , 1992 .

[56]  Michael J. Singer,et al.  Crusting, runoff, and erosion response to soil water content and successive rainfalls , 1992 .

[57]  Christian Valentin,et al.  A runoff capability classification system based on surface features criteria in semi-arid areas of West Africa , 1992 .

[58]  K. Abbaspour,et al.  A yield model for use in determining crop insurance premiums , 1992 .

[59]  Jiftah Ben-Asher,et al.  A daily runoff simulation in semi-arid watersheds based on soil water deficit calculations , 1993 .

[60]  William G. Nickling,et al.  The protective role of sparse vegetation in wind erosion , 1993 .

[61]  Phillip A. Arkin,et al.  A Global View of Large-Scale Precipitation Variability , 1993 .

[62]  Andrew Simon,et al.  A rainfall intensity-duration threshold for landslides in a humid- tropical environment, Puerto Rico , 1993 .

[63]  Dara Entekhabi,et al.  Estimation of Continental Precipitation Recycling. , 1993 .

[64]  J. M. Gregory,et al.  Environmental controls on blowing dust direction at lubbock, Texas, U.S.A. , 1994 .

[65]  Fei Chen,et al.  Impact of Land-Surface Moisture Variability on Local Shallow Convective Cumulus and Precipitation in Large-Scale Models , 1994 .

[66]  K. Richards,et al.  The significance of rainstorm variations to shallow translational hillslope failure , 1994 .

[67]  Craig A. Clark,et al.  Numerical Simulations of the Effect of Soil Moisture and Vegetation Cover on the Development of Deep Convection , 1995 .

[68]  D. Solís,et al.  Fog interception in montane forests across the Central Cordillera of Panamá , 1996, Journal of Tropical Ecology.

[69]  Moti Segal,et al.  Influences of Model Parameterization Schemes on the Response of Rainfall to Soil Moisture in the Central United States , 1996 .

[70]  N. Breda,et al.  Intra- and interannual variations of transpiration, leaf area index and radial growth of a sessile oak stand (Quercus petraea) , 1996 .

[71]  R. Mahmood.  Scale issues in soil moisture modelling: problems and prospects , 1996 .

[72]  Huug van den Dool,et al.  Analysis of model-calculated soil moisture over the United States (1931-1993) and applications to long-range temperature forecasts , 1996 .

[73]  S. M. Arens.  Rates of aeolian transport on a beach in a temperate humid climate , 1996 .

[74]  J. Poesen,et al.  Erosion, flooding and channel management in Mediterranean environments of southern Europe , 1997 .

[75]  L. Benda,et al.  Stochastic forcing of sediment supply to channel networks from landsliding and debris flow , 1997 .

[76]  D. Wilhite.  RESPONDING TO DROUGHT: COMMON THREADS FROM THE PAST, VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE 1 , 1997 .

[77]  F. Hughes,et al.  Floodplain biogeomorphology , 1997 .

[78]  J. Pelletier.  Scale-invariance of soil moisture variability and its implications for the frequency-size distribution of landslides , 1997, physics/9705035.

[79]  C. McKenna Neuman,et al.  Wind tunnel measurement of boundary-layer response to sediment transport , 1997 .

[80]  Douglas W. Gamble,et al.  A SYNOPTIC CLIMATOLOGY OF EXTREME UNSEASONABLE FLOODS IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES, 1950–1990 , 1997 .

[81]  J. Bockheim,et al.  NATURE, OCCURRENCE AND ORIGIN OF DRY PERMAFROST , 1998 .

[82]  Bruno Merz,et al.  Effects of spatial variability on the rainfall runoff process in a small loess catchment , 1998 .

[83]  A. Williams,et al.  Soil moisture variability in a semi-arid gully catchment: implications for runoff and erosion control , 1998 .

[84]  Douglas J. Sherman,et al.  Wind-blown sand on beaches: an evaluation of models , 1998 .

[85]  Grant Harvey McTainsh,et al.  Climatic controls upon dust storm occurrence in eastern Australia , 1998 .

[86]  C. Neuman,et al.  A wind tunnel study of the influence of pore water on aeolian sediment transport , 1998 .

[87]  N. Lancaster,et al.  Influence of vegetation cover on sand transport by wind: field studies at Owens Lake, California , 1998 .

[88]  G. Bergametti,et al.  Parametrization of the increase of the aeolian erosion threshold wind friction velocity due to soil moisture for arid and semi-arid areas , 1999 .

[89]  A. Ceballos,et al.  Hydrological behaviour of a small catchment in the dehesa landuse system (Extremadura, SW Spain) , 1998 .

[90]  K. Nordstrom,et al.  Aeolian transport of sediment on a beach during and after rainfall, Wildwood, NJ, USA , 1998 .

[91]  S. Walsh,et al.  An overview of scale, pattern, process relationships in geomorphology: a remote sensing and GIS perspective , 1998 .

[92]  H. French.  An appraisal of cryostratigraphy in north-west Arctic Canada , 1998 .

[93]  Guy W. Prettyman,et al.  Environmental Soil Physics , 1999 .

[94]  L.P.H. van Beek,et al.  A view on some hydrological triggering systems in landslides , 1999 .

[95]  J. R. Philip.  Environmental Soil Physics, by D. Hillel, Academic Press, San Diego, CA, xxvii+771 pp., ISBN 0-12-348.525-8, ($69.95) , 1999 .

[96]  R. Pielke,et al.  The Influence of Anthropogenic Landscape Changes on Weather in South Florida , 1999 .

[97]  H. Elsenbeer,et al.  Distributed modeling of storm flow generation in an Amazonian rain forest catchment: Effects of model parameterization , 1999 .

[98]  Dale A. Gillette,et al.  A qualitative geophysical explanation for hot spot dust emitting source regions , 1999 .

[99]  J. Poesen,et al.  Concentrated flow erosion rates as affected by rock fragment cover and initial soil moisture content , 1999 .

[100]  Günter Blöschl,et al.  On the spatial scaling of soil moisture , 1999 .

[101]  Takahisa Mizuyama,et al.  Runoff characteristics of pipeflow and effects of pipeflow on rainfall-runoff phenomena in a mountainous watershed , 1999 .

[102]  Peter R. Robichaud,et al.  Fire effects on infiltration rates after prescribed fire in Northern Rocky Mountain forests, USA , 2000 .

[103]  P. Dirmeyer.  Using a global soil wetness dataset to improve seasonal climate simulation , 2000 .

[104]  E. Johnson,et al.  Geomorphic principles of terrain organization and vegetation gradients , 2000 .

[105]  Song-You Hong,et al.  Role of sea surface temperature and soil-moisture feedback in the 1998 Oklahoma–Texas drought , 2000, Nature.

[106]  A. Robock,et al.  The Global Soil Moisture Data Bank , 2000 .

[107]  P. Robichaud,et al.  Water repellency by laboratory burning of four northern Rocky Mountain forest soils , 2000 .

[108]  L. Grasso.  A numerical simulation of dryline sensitivity to soil moisture , 2000 .

[109]  J. Aboal,et al.  Effects of thinning on throughfall in Canary Islands pine forest — the role of fog , 2000 .

[110]  S. Trudgill,et al.  Variation of phosphorus loss from a small catchment in south Devon, UK. , 2000 .

[111]  J. Roberts.  The influence of physical and physiological characteristics of vegetation on their hydrological response , 2000 .

[112]  Richard M. Iverson,et al.  Landslide triggering by rain infiltration , 2000 .

[113]  Shoji Noguchi,et al.  Stormflow generation in steep forested headwaters: a linked hydrogeomorphic paradigm , 2000 .

[114]  A. Robock,et al.  Temporal and spatial scales of observed soil moisture variations in the extratropics , 2000 .

[115]  Chris Houser,et al.  The factors influencing the abrasion efficiency of saltating grains on a clay‐crusted playa , 2001 .

[116]  F. Chauvin,et al.  Influence of Soil Moisture on the Asian and African Monsoons. Part I: Mean Monsoon and Daily Precipitation , 2001 .

[117]  Jeremy S. Pal,et al.  Pathways Relating Soil Moisture Conditions to Future Summer Rainfall within a Model of the Land-Atmosphere System , 2001 .

[118]  R. Pielke.  Influence of the spatial distribution of vegetation and soils on the prediction of cumulus Convective rainfall , 2001 .

[119]  Thomas W. Giambelluca,et al.  Acceleration of Horton overland flow and erosion by footpaths in an upland agricultural watershed in northern Thailand , 2001 .

[120]  J. Stout.  Dust and environment in the Southern High Plains of North America , 2001 .

[121]  A N Sharpley,et al.  Approximating phosphorus release from soils to surface runoff and subsurface drainage. , 2001, Journal of environmental quality.

[122]  L. H. Cammeraat.  A review of two strongly contrasting geomorphological systems within the context of scale , 2002 .

[123]  R. Mahmood,et al.  Anthropogenic land-use change in the North American tall grass-short grass transition and modification of near-surface hydrologic cycle , 2002 .

[124]  T. Krishnamurti,et al.  A simple soil moisture scheme for regional climate simulations in the tropics , 2002 .

[125]  P. Montesano,et al.  Examining the Relationship Between Snowfall and Wildfire Patterns in the Western United States , 2002 .

[126]  P. Milly,et al.  A Model-Based Investigation of Soil Moisture Predictability and Associated Climate Predictability , 2002 .

[127]  H. Rennenberg,et al.  Impact of waterlogging on the N‐metabolism of flood tolerant and non‐tolerant tree species , 2002 .

[128]  R. Grayson,et al.  Scaling of Soil Moisture: A Hydrologic Perspective , 2002 .

[129]  James M. Dyer.  A Comparison of Moisture Scalars and Water Budget Methods to Assess Vegetation-Site Relationships , 2002 .

[130]  T. J. Lyons,et al.  Clouds prefer native vegetation , 2002 .

[131]  Gregory S. Okin,et al.  An ENSO predictor of dust emission in the southwestern United States , 2002 .

[132]  T. Schmugge,et al.  Remote sensing in hydrology , 2002 .

[133]  C. Harden,et al.  Infiltration on mountain slopes: a comparison of three environments , 2003 .

[134]  M. Martínez-Mena,et al.  The role of antecedent soil water content in the runoff response of semiarid catchments: a simulation approach , 2003 .

[135]  D. Legates,et al.  Interannual and seasonal variability of modelled soil moisture in Oklahoma , 2003 .

[136]  K. Findell,et al.  Atmospheric controls on soil moisture‐boundary layer interactions: Three‐dimensional wind effects , 2003 .

[137]  J. Peñuelas,et al.  Diurnal and seasonal variations in the photosynthetic performance and water relations of two co-occurring Mediterranean shrubs, Erica multiflora and Globularia alypum. , 2003, Physiologia plantarum.

[138]  D. Levia,et al.  A review and evaluation of stemflow literature in the hydrologic and biogeochemical cycles of forested and agricultural ecosystems , 2003 .

[139]  Randal D. Koster,et al.  Impact of Land Surface Initialization on Seasonal Precipitation and Temperature Prediction , 2003 .

[140]  L. Kump,et al.  Soil pore-water distributions and the temperature feedback of weathering in soils , 2003 .

[141]  A. Pitman,et al.  The Impact of 200 Years of Land Cover Change on the Australian Near-Surface Climate , 2003 .

[142]  S. Abella.  Quantifying Ecosystem Geomorphology of the Southern Appalachian Mountains , 2003 .

[143]  R. Mahmood,et al.  Impact of Irrigation on Midsummer Surface Fluxes and Temperature under Dry Synoptic Conditions: A Regional Atmospheric Model Study of the U.S. High Plains , 2003 .

[144]  C. Neuman.  Effects of Temperature and Humidity upon the Entrainment of Sedimentary Particles by Wind , 2003 .

[145]  Congbin Fu,et al.  Potential impacts of human-induced land cover change on East Asia monsoon , 2003 .

[146]  R. Koster,et al.  Global Soil Moisture from Satellite Observations, Land Surface Models, and Ground Data: Implications for Data Assimilation , 2004 .

[147]  Timothy R. H. Davies,et al.  Sediment generation and delivery from large historic landslides in the Southern Alps, New Zealand , 2004 .

[148]  J. Pereira,et al.  Constraints on transpiration from an evergreen oak tree in southern Portugal , 2004 .

[149]  Michael A. Palecki,et al.  Pacific and Atlantic Ocean influences on multidecadal drought frequency in the United States , 2004, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

[150]  M. Seeger,et al.  Catchment soil moisture and rainfall characteristics as determinant factors for discharge/suspended sediment hysteretic loops in a small headwater catchment in the Spanish pyrenees , 2004 .

[151]  Xubin Zeng,et al.  The Effects of Observed Fractional Vegetation Cover on the Land Surface Climatology of the Community Land Model , 2004 .

[152]  Rezaul Mahmood,et al.  An Analysis of Simulated Long-Term Soil Moisture Data for Three Land Uses under Contrasting Hydroclimatic Conditions in the Northern Great Plains , 2004 .

[153]  Andrew Baird,et al.  Thresholds of aeolian sand transport: establishing suitable values , 2004 .

[154]  H. Elsenbeer,et al.  Overland flow generation in two lithologically distinct rainforest catchments , 2004 .

[155]  C. Taylor,et al.  Feedback between the Land Surface and Rainfall at Convective Length Scales , 2004 .

[156]  D. Lawrence,et al.  Regions of Strong Coupling Between Soil Moisture and Precipitation , 2004, Science.

[157]  A. Holtslag,et al.  Influence of Soil Moisture on Boundary Layer Cloud Development , 2004 .

[158]  P. M. Haygarth,et al.  Processes controlling soil phosphorus release to runoff and implications for agricultural management , 2001, Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems.

[159]  J. Feddema.  A Revised Thornthwaite-Type Global Climate Classification , 2005 .

[160]  Thomas Glade,et al.  Climatic factors influencing occurrence of debris flows , 2005 .

[161]  Kenneth M. Hinkel,et al.  The transient layer: implications for geocryology and climate‐change science , 2005 .

[162]  David J. Stensrud,et al.  Influences of a Winter Wheat Belt on the Evolution of the Boundary Layer , 2005 .

[163]  R. Davidson‐Arnott,et al.  The effect of wind gusts, moisture content and fetch length on sand transport on a beach , 2005 .

[164]  A. Baas,et al.  Formation and behavior of aeolian streamers , 2005 .

[165]  Valerio Tramutoli,et al.  Monitoring soil wetness variations by means of satellite passive microwave observations: the HYDROPTIMET study cases , 2005 .

[166]  S. Herwitz,et al.  Interspecific variation of bark water storage capacity of three deciduous tree species in relation to stemflow yield and solute flux to forest soils , 2005 .

[167]  S. P. Anderson.  Glaciers show direct linkage between erosion rate and chemical weathering fluxes , 2005 .

[168]  Werner Eugster,et al.  Historical land use changes and mesoscale summer climate on the Swiss Plateau , 2005 .

[169]  Jeremy S. Pal,et al.  The coupling of the Common Land Model (CLM0) to a regional climate model (RegCM) , 2005 .

[170]  R. Schneider,et al.  Provenance of present‐day eolian dust collected off NW Africa , 2005 .

[171]  R. Davidson‐Arnott,et al.  Rapid Measurement of Surface Moisture Content on a Beach , 2005 .

[172]  R. Srinivasan,et al.  Development and evaluation of Soil Moisture Deficit Index (SMDI) and Evapotranspiration Deficit Index (ETDI) for agricultural drought monitoring , 2005 .

[173]  Dennis P. Lettenmaier,et al.  Trends in 20th century drought over the continental United States , 2006 .

[174]  L. Smith,et al.  The relationship between fluid flow and mineral weathering in heterogeneous unsaturated porous media: A physical and geochemical characterization of a waste-rock pile , 2006 .

[175]  Cheryl McKenna Neuman,et al.  Measurement of water content as a control of particle entrainment by wind , 2006 .

[176]  P. Molnar,et al.  The influence of landsliding on sediment supply and channel change in a steep mountain catchment , 2006 .

[177]  Faisal Hossain,et al.  Towards Formulation of a Space-borne System for Early Warning of Floods: Can Cost-Effectiveness Outweigh Prediction Uncertainty? , 2006 .

[178]  A. Maurellis,et al.  Evidence for influence of anthropogenic surface processes on lower tropospheric and surface temperature trends , 2006 .

[179]  Delphis F. Levia,et al.  Variability of throughfall volume and solute inputs in wooded ecosystems , 2006 .

[180]  C. Holder.  The hydrological significance of cloud forests in the Sierra de las Minas Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala , 2006 .

[181]  R. Pielke,et al.  An overview of regional land-use and land-cover impacts on rainfall , 2007 .

[182]  Renee A. McPherson,et al.  A review of vegetation—atmosphere interactions and their influences on mesoscale phenomena , 2007 .

[183]  Paul R. Houser,et al.  Scanning multichannel microwave radiometer snow water equivalent assimilation , 2007 .

[184]  J. Alfieri,et al.  Influence of Land Cover and Soil Moisture on the Horizontal Distribution of Sensible and Latent Heat Fluxes in Southeast Kansas during IHOP_2002 and CASES-97 , 2007 .

[185]  Jennifer M. Jacobs,et al.  Relationships among remotely sensed soil moisture, precipitation and landslide events , 2007 .

[186]  Y. Kerr,et al.  Operational readiness of microwave remote sensing of soil moisture for hydrologic applications , 2007 .

[187]  P. Houser,et al.  Impacts of vegetation and cold season processes on soil moisture and climate relationships over Eurasia , 2007 .

[188]  Stéphane Bélair,et al.  A Land Data Assimilation System for Soil Moisture and Temperature: An Information Content Study , 2007 .

[189]  Rezaul Mahmood,et al.  Relationship between soil moisture of near surface and multiple depths of the root zone under heterogeneous land uses and varying hydroclimatic conditions , 2007 .

[190]  Roger A. Pielke,et al.  Observational and modeling studies of the impacts of agriculture-related land use change on planetary boundary layer processes in the central U.S. , 2007 .

[191]  W. Wagner,et al.  Soil moisture from operational meteorological satellites , 2007 .

[192]  Michael E. Brown,et al.  Temperature as an Indicator of Landform Influence on Atmospheric Processes , 2007 .

[193]  Y. Kerr.  Soil moisture from space: Where are we? , 2007 .

[194]  M. Friedl,et al.  Convective Planetary Boundary Layer Interactions with the Land Surface at Diurnal Time Scales: Diagnostics and Feedbacks , 2007 .

[195]  P. F. Chavez,et al.  Dust emission from wet and dry playas in the Mojave Desert, USA , 2007 .

[196]  A. Rinaldo,et al.  Probabilistic characterization of base flows in river basins: Roles of soil, vegetation, and geomorphology , 2007 .

[197]  Michael E. Schaepman,et al.  A review on reflective remote sensing and data assimilation techniques for enhanced agroecosystem modeling , 2007, Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation.

[198]  J. Phillips,et al.  Weathering and vegetation effects in early stages of soil formation , 2008 .

[199]  Andrew M. Carleton,et al.  Synoptic Circulation and Land Surface Influences on Convection in the Midwest U.S. “Corn Belt” during the Summers of 1999 and 2000. Part I: Composite Synoptic Environments , 2008 .

[200]  Gregory B. Goodrich,et al.  Nature and causes of the 2002 to 2004 drought in the southwestern United States compared with the historic 1953 to 1957 drought , 2008 .

[201]  Randal D. Koster,et al.  The role of soil moisture initialization in subseasonal and seasonal streamflow prediction – A case study in Sri Lanka , 2008 .

[202]  J. Vrugt,et al.  On the value of soil moisture measurements in vadose zone hydrology: A review , 2008 .

[203]  W. Ni-Meister.  Recent Advances On Soil Moisture Data Assimilation , 2008 .

[204]  M. Liniger,et al.  Landsliding and sediment flux in the Central Swiss Alps: A photogrammetric study of the Schimbrig landslide Entlebuch , 2008 .

[205]  Steven M. Quiring,et al.  Application of CERES-Maize for within-season prediction of rainfed corn yields in Delaware, USA , 2008 .

[206]  R. Knight,et al.  Soil Moisture Measurement for Ecological and Hydrological Watershed‐Scale Observatories: A Review , 2008 .

[207]  John H. Loughrin,et al.  A Coupled MM5-NOAH Land Surface Model-based Assessment of Sensitivity of Planetary Boundary Layer Variables to Anomalous Soil Moisture Conditions , 2008, Physical Geography.

[208]  Spatial Variability and Persistence of Soil Moisture in Oklahoma , 2008 .

[209]  H. Lavee,et al.  The effect of rock fragment size and position on topsoil moisture on arid and semi-arid hillslopes , 2008 .

[210]  Frank Veroustraete,et al.  Assessment of Evapotranspiration and Soil Moisture Content Across Different Scales of Observation , 2008, Sensors.

[211]  Ian J. Walker,et al.  Aeolian sediment transport on a beach: Surface moisture, wind fetch, and mean transport , 2009 .

[212]  A. Jones,et al.  A scaling analysis of soil moisture–precipitation interactions in a regional climate model , 2009 .

[213]  Peter Bauer,et al.  A review of satellite meteorology and climatology at the start of the twenty-first century , 2009 .

[214]  John H. Loughrin,et al.  Simulation of boundary layer trajectory dispersion sensitivity to soil moisture conditions: MM5 and Noah-based investigation , 2009 .

[215]  U. C. Mohanty,et al.  Possible relation between land surface feedback and the post‐landfall structure of monsoon depressions , 2009 .

[216]  Takahisa Mizuyama,et al.  A three-dimensional model of the effect of stemflow on soil water dynamics around a tree on a hillslope. , 2009 .

[217]  In Sopper.  Factors affecting the response of small watersheds to precipitation in humid areas , 2009 .

[218]  Holly Croft,et al.  Remote sensing of soil surface properties , 2009 .

[219]  R. Wu,et al.  Analysis of the Relationship of U.S. Droughts with SST and Soil Moisture: Distinguishing the Time Scale of Droughts , 2009 .

[220]  Isabel Abrisqueta,et al.  Soil water balance trial involving capacitance and neutron probe measurements , 2009 .

[221]  J. V. Van Stan,et al.  Inter‐ and intraspecific variation of stemflow production from Fagus grandifolia Ehrh. (American beech) and Liriodendron tulipifera L. (yellow poplar) in relation to bark microrelief in the eastern United States , 2009 .

[222]  S. Murakami.  Abrupt changes in annual stemflow with growth in a young stand of Japanese cypress , 2009 .

[223]  T. Cochrane,et al.  The influence of shallow landslides on sediment supply: A flume-based investigation using sandy soil , 2009 .

[224]  Zhao-Liang Li,et al.  Scale Issues in Remote Sensing: A Review on Analysis, Processing and Modeling , 2009, Sensors.

[225]  Xin‐Zhong Liang,et al.  Improved Terrestrial Hydrologic Representation in Mesoscale Land Surface Models , 2010 .

[226]  L. Meng,et al.  Observational relationship of sea surface temperatures and precedent soil moisture with summer precipitation in the U.S. Great Plains , 2010 .

[227]  Soil Moisture Measurements: Comparison of Instrumentation Performances , 2010 .

[228]  Variability and trends in dry day frequency and dry event length in the southwestern United States , 2010 .

[229]  M. E..  A 16-year record of eolian dust in Southern Nevada and California , USA : Controls on dust generation and accumulation , 2022 .