The spatial and temporal organization of soil moisture /

and the atmospheric components of the continental hydrologic

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vogel, Gregor Klaus, 1966-
Format: Thesis eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1995.
Subjects:
Online Access:Link to OAKTrust copy
Description
Summary:and the atmospheric components of the continental hydrologic
and the dynamics of soil moisture is investigated through a
balance between positive and negative feedbacks. The
be highly organized reaching a noise-induced statistical
both time and space: a complex picture with nested patterns
climatic scales - precipitation are hydrologic processes that
data: low pass-filtering of rainfall forcing, persistence of
different scales: climate, topography, precipitation,
droughts and wet periods. Furthermore the model indicates a
dynamics of soil moisture in space and time at climatic
generated soil moisture fields are analyzed in both time and
geology, pedology, vegetation. In this thesis it is examined
high degree of heterogeneity over a wide range of scales in
including an additive stochastic forcing term, constitute the
measured from remote sensors, are analyzed under different
model. Experimental large scale data of soil moisture,
model's equations. The system evolves in time and shows to
moisture can be described using a simple statistical approach
of variability. From a dynamic perspective many factors and
precipitation, and positive spatial correlations ranging up
processes influence the evolution of soil moisture at
resolutions. The variance of soil moisture fields is shown
Runoff, infiltration, evaporation and transpiration and - at
scales from the tens of meters to several kilometers. The
scales is modeled including its coupling with the atmosphere
scaling properties on its spatial clustering patterns. A
scaling spectrum of soil moisture for high frequencies, a
space showing some of the typical aspects of experimental
strong correlation with the atmospheric moisture and
strongly depend on soil moisture. From a descriptive
subsystem as well as energy balance for the atmosphere,
the process is observed. The spatial correlation remains
through energy and mass fluxes. Water balance for the soil
to follow a power law decay as function of the area at which
to one-fifth of the domain size.
typical of scaling processes. Soil moisture also shows clear
unchanged with the scale and follows a power law decay
viewpoint, soil moisture is. characterized by an extremely
well-defined organization of statistical character links
whether the apparently orderless spatial structure of soil
Item Description:"Major subject: Water Resources Engineering".
Vita.
Physical Description:x, 101 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Also available online.
Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.