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Soil moisture is determined by the various factors which regulate the entry of water through the soil surface and the removal of water from the soil through evaporation from the soil surface, root abstraction, redistribution, and drainage.
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Calder, I.R. (1997). Approaches for Measuring and Modeling Soil Moisture. In: Sorooshian, S., Gupta, H.V., Rodda, J.C. (eds) Land Surface Processes in Hydrology. NATO ASI Series, vol 46. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60567-3_13
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