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SOME PROBLEMS IN THE STUDY ON  THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOIL MOISTURE AND CLIMATIC CHANGE

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  • 1.START for TEACOM, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS, Beijing 100029,China;
    2.Meteorological Station of Tianjin Administration of Civil Aviation, Tianjin 300300,China;
    3.Chinese Academy of Meteorology, Beijing 100081,China

Received date: 2000-12-19

  Revised date: 2001-02-26

  Online published: 2001-08-01

Abstract

In this paper, the importance of soil moisture in the studies of climatic change and global change is described according to the development of soil moisture study, and in the light of the scientific background, two important scientific problems and present situation in these studies are reviewed. The results indicate that the absent of observational data is an important factor limiting the study of the relationship between soil moisture and related para meterization scheme is also one of the key project in climate model study.Finally, we have some probable perspectives and suggest a few problem in the study of soil moisture in future.

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MA Zhuguo, FU Congbin,XIE Li,CHEN Wenhai,TAO Shuwang . SOME PROBLEMS IN THE STUDY ON  THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOIL MOISTURE AND CLIMATIC CHANGE[J]. Advances in Earth Science, 2001 , 16(4) : 563 -566 . DOI: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2001.04.0563

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