Soil Moisture Dynamics

A special issue of Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 September 2020) | Viewed by 923

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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Water Resources Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
Interests: remote sensing; climate change; sustainable development; irrigation and drainage; big data; best management practices; hydrometeorology; hydroclimatology; hydroinformatics; hydrological forecasting
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Dear Colleagues,

Global warming and climate change are big challenges for human beings. These challenges impact decision making in areas of water crisis, such as water resources allocation, agricultural water management, water and food security, etc. Having accurate information about the quantity and quality of water in the soil is of great importance topics when dealing with water crisis issues. Therefore, studying soil moisture dynamics can improve our ability to monitor and estimate water content in the soil environment.

In this Special Issue, spotlighting soil moisture dynamics, manuscripts (original research articles, review articles, case studies, commentaries, discussions, technical notes, editorials, forums, short communication, and book reviews) are invited to include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

  • Application of remote sensing to estimate soil moisture
  • Spatial and temporal analysis of soil moisture patterns
  • Effect of soil organic matter contents on moisture supply capacities
  • Dynamics of soil moisture balance components
  • Relationship between soil moisture and the productivity of natural vegetation
  • Role of soil moisture sensors in smart irrigation
  • Soil moisture sensors and precision agriculture
  • Evaluation of soil moisture anomalies
  • Geophysical measuring in dry and wet soil conditions
  • Assessing surface and root zone soil moisture for agricultural purposes
  • Climate change and soil moisture variability dynamics
  • Importance of soil moisture dynamics in ecohydrology
  • Investigations of vegetation-soil moisture feedbacks
  • Effect of elevated CO2 on soil moisture dynamics
  • Modeling soil moisture dynamics and runoff for hillslopes
  • Hydrological response of watersheds to soil moisture dynamics
  • Precipitation, soil moisture, and evapotranspiration chain
  • Soil moisture and plant stress dynamics
  • Analyzing soil moisture variations using big data
  • Importance of groundwater resources on soil moisture dynamics
  • Simulation of soil moisture variations in geosciences
  • Global and regional sensitive analysis of factors influencing soil moisture dynamics
  • Modern algorithms to predict soil moisture dynamics
  • Role of water-energy balance on soil moisture dynamics
  • Using isotopes as tracers of soil moisture dynamics
  • The ability of climate reanalysis and land surface models to capture soil moisture dynamics
  • Monitoring soil moisture dynamics toward sustainable development

Dr. Mohammad Valipour
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