Anyone else hooked on the weekly Environment Agency reports regarding soil moisture deficit?
The area's soil moisture deficit is still "abnormally low" according to Channel 4 News weather forecaster Liam Dutton.
The mean annual precipitation is between 40 and 55 inches (1,020 and 1,400 mm), but there is a marked moisture deficit because of the long, intensely dry season that follows.
"The effects of a moisture deficit are cumulative, and the further down the road you go, the more pronounced the effects," said Frankie Romero, zone management officer for the United States Forest Service in Rifle, who commanded the fight against the Lower South Fork fire.
In addition, a new soil moisture term called SMDS (Soil Moisture Deficit to Saturation) is proposed to complement the conventional SMD (Soil Moisture Deficit).
These changes will result in extended periods of soil moisture deficit (Hlavinka et al. 2009).
The domain with best performance is used for estimating the soil moisture deficit (SMD).
rhamnoides had the highest SOC sequestration but also had significant deep soil moisture deficit.
rhamnoides with terracing showed near-zero deep soil moisture deficit and significant, positive SOC sequestration.
For Eldena, the previous-year climate moisture deficit (pCMD) was found as a major growth determinant (Table 3).
However, soil moisture deficit did not significantly affect the canopy temperature of the cultivar LOK-1 and NIAW-301.
