NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : CONSERVB pdf

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : CONSERVB

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A comprehensive, yet fairly simple model of water disposition in a bare soil profile under the sequential impact of rain storms and other atmospheric influences, as they occur from hour to hour is presented. This model is intended mostly to support field studies of soil moisture dynamics by our current team, to serve as a background for the microwave measurements, and, eventually, to serve as a point of departure for soil moisture predictions for estimates based in part upon airborne measurements. The main distinction of the current model is that it accounts not only for the moisture flow in the soil-atmosphere system, but also for the energy flow and, hence, calculates system temperatures. Also, the model is of a dynamic nature, capable of supporting any required degree of resolution in time and space. Much critical testing of the sample is needed before the complexities of the hydrology of a vegetated surface can be related meaningfully to microwave observations

• Creator/s: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS
• Date: 9/1/1982
• Year: 1982
• Book Topics/Themes: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), AGRISTARS PROJECT, BARREN LAND, DYNAMIC MODELS, MATHEMATICAL MODELS, MOISTURE CONTENT, SOIL MOISTURE, SURFACE TEMPERATURE, COMPUTER TECHNIQUES, EARTH RESOURCES PROGRAM, EVAPORATION RATE, HYDROLOGY MODELS, MICROWAVE EMISSION, Vanbavel, C. H. M., Lascano, R. J

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