This research investigates the interannual variability of soil moisture as related to large-scale climate variability and also evaluates the spatial and temporal variability of modeled deep layer (40–140 cm) soil moisture in the Upper Colorado River Basin (UCRB). A three layers hydrological model VIC-3L (Variable Infiltration Capacity Model – 3 layers) was used to generate soil moisture in the ...

*Correspondence: Raquel Nieto, Environmental Physics Laboratory, Departamento de Física Aplicada, Facultade de Ciencias, Universidade de Vigo, Edif. Física, Campus As Lagoas S/N, 32004 Ourense, Spain e-mail: [email protected] Leaving aside the contribution made by recycling, it is the main oceanic moisture sources that are responsible for most of the precipitation that falls on the continents. Th...

Feeding shelled corn as the primary supplement in cracked dry form or ground high moisture form to grazing cows was studied in an experiment using 32 cows in late lactation. Each of the two forms of corn accounted for 74.7% of the concentrate supplement, which was fed at 9 kg/d (DM). The experiment was 13 wk, during which cows grazed permanent native pasture containing mostly grasses and some c...

The quality of preserved food is largely dependent on its moisture content, moisture migration and/or moisture uptake of the food during storage. Therefore, the water activity level, which corresponds to a range of equilibrium moisture contents, must be determined by, for example, the use of moisture isotherms. The shape of the isotherm curve is dependent on the interactions between the vapour ...

Moisture distributions in spaghettis prepared at a maximum temperature of 50, 70, or 85 °C, designated as LT-, HT-, or VHT-spaghetti, respectively, and cooked to the average moisture content of 1.71 ± 0.01 kg-H2O/kg-d.m., were measured. The moisture contents near the surface and at the center of the LT-spaghetti were lower and higher, respectively, than those of HT- and VHT-spaghetti.

In this study, the effect of extrusion process parameters of a locally developed extruder on the moisture loss of extrudates of the flour and starch of maize and cassava which are grown in Nigeria in large quantity were characterized. These were compared with those of wheat flour which is commonly used for the production of alimentary paste. The parameters considered include feed moisture (30, ...

The importance of spatial variability of antecedent soil moisture conditions on runoff response is widely acknowledged in hillslope hydrology. Using a distributed hydrologic model, this paper aims at investigating the effects of soil moisture spatial variability on runoff in various field conditions and at finding the structure of the soil moisture pattern that approaches the measured soil mois...

This paper studied the impact of moisture on the correlated characteristics of the condenser bushings oil-paper insulation system. The oil-impregnated paper samples underwent accelerated thermal aging at 130 ̋C after preparation at different initial moisture contents (1%, 3%, 5% and 7%). All the samples were extracted periodically for the measurement of the moisture content, the degree of polym...