| Abstract |
The knowledge of soil surface water content is of critical importance for several disciplines (e.g. hydrology, agriculture, meteorology, and climatology). The soil water content plays an important role in the partitioning of net solar radiation into latent and sensible heat components. These components are the driving forces that control land-atmosphere exchange processes. The description of these exchange processes is important in General Circulation Models (CGM) and Regional Climate Models (RCM).
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