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DOI | 10.1029/2018WR023505 |
A Nonstationary Geostatistical Framework for Soil Moisture Prediction in the Presence of Surface Heterogeneity | |
Kathuria, Dhruva1; Mohanty, Binayak P.1; Katzfuss, Matthias2 | |
2019 | |
发表期刊 | WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
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ISSN | 0043-1397 |
EISSN | 1944-7973 |
出版年 | 2019 |
卷号 | 55期号:1页码:729-753 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA |
英文摘要 | Soil moisture is spatially variable due to complex interactions between geologic, topographic, vegetation, and atmospheric variables. Correct representation of subgrid soil moisture variability is crucial in improving land surface modeling schemes and remote sensing retrievals. In addition to the mean structure, the variance and correlation of soil moisture are affected by the underlying land surface heterogeneity. This often violates the underlying assumption of stationarity/isotropy made by classical geostatistical models. The present study proposes a geostatistical framework to predict and upscale soil moisture in a nonstationary setting using a flexible spatial model whose variance/correlation structure varies with changing land surface characteristics. The proposed framework is applied to model soil moisture distribution using in situ data in the Red River watershed in Southern Manitoba, Canada. It is seen that both the variance and correlation structure exhibits spatial nonstationarity for the given surface heterogeneity driven primarily by vegetation and soil texture. At the beginning of the crop season, soil texture plays a critical role in the drying cycle by decreasing variance and increasing correlation as the soil becomes drier. Once the crops begin to mature, vegetation becomes the dominant driver, promoting spatial correlation and reducing SM variance. We upscale our point scale soil moisture predictions to the airborne extent (approximate to 1.5 km) and find that the upscaled soil moisture agrees well with the observed airborne data with root-mean-square error values ranging from 0.04 to 0.08 (v/v). The proposed framework can be used to predict and upscale soil moisture in heterogeneous environments. Plain Language Summary Soil moisture (SM) is a critical variable governing the global water and energy cycles. Understanding how SM varies in space is therefore critical. This spatial variation of SM can be typically defined by three statistical quantities: mean (average value), variance (how far the individual SM values are from the average value), and correlation (how individual SM values are related to each other). Variance/correlation of SM are typically assumed to be constant in traditional geostatistics methods. This is a major shortcoming because it has been well established that land surface characteristics such as soil, vegetation, and topography affects the spatial variability of SM. In this study, we propose a framework that accounts for the effect of these characteristics on the variance/correlation of SM. We apply our framework to a watershed in Manitoba, Canada, and find that our framework performs significantly better than the traditional method. We find that soil texture and vegetation affect SM distribution at different stages of crop growth. We aggregate our point scale SM predictions to 1.5-km (airborne) scale and find that our predictions mimic observed SM data at this scale. We conclude that our framework can be used to predict and aggregate SM using surface data. |
英文关键词 | soil moisture nonstationarity geostatistics heterogeneity remote sensing physical controls |
领域 | 资源环境 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000459536500039 |
WOS关键词 | COVARIANCE FUNCTIONS ; SPATIAL CORRELATION ; DYNAMICS ; VARIABILITY ; EVOLUTION ; OPTIMIZATION ; ASSIMILATION ; VARIOGRAM ; VARIANCE ; PATTERNS |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Limnology ; Water Resources |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Marine & Freshwater Biology ; Water Resources |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/21470 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
作者单位 | 1.Texas A&M Univ, Biol & Agr Engn, College Stn, TX 77843 USA; 2.Texas A&M Univ, Dept Stat, College Stn, TX 77843 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Kathuria, Dhruva,Mohanty, Binayak P.,Katzfuss, Matthias. A Nonstationary Geostatistical Framework for Soil Moisture Prediction in the Presence of Surface Heterogeneity[J]. WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH,2019,55(1):729-753. |
APA | Kathuria, Dhruva,Mohanty, Binayak P.,&Katzfuss, Matthias.(2019).A Nonstationary Geostatistical Framework for Soil Moisture Prediction in the Presence of Surface Heterogeneity.WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH,55(1),729-753. |
MLA | Kathuria, Dhruva,et al."A Nonstationary Geostatistical Framework for Soil Moisture Prediction in the Presence of Surface Heterogeneity".WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH 55.1(2019):729-753. |
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