Knowledge of temporal and spatial variation in root zone soil moisture content across Australia is vital for a wide range of environmental and socio-economic activities. However, such information is not currently available, due to an inability to monitor with ground-based point measurement techniques at an appropriate spatial resolution, and the uncertainty associated with land surface model pr...

Coordination between the normal force exerted by fingers on a held object and the tangential constraints at the fingertips helps to successfully manipulate objects. It is well established that the minimal grip force required to prevent an object from slipping strongly depends on the frictional properties at the finger-object interface. Moreover, interindividual variation in the modulation of gr...

y@engr. (J.D. Ni Summary Soil moisture patterns and dynamics are important for numerous applications such as flood forecasting, climate modeling, and management of agricultural lands. Unfortunately, widespread observations of soil moisture are not currently available at the spatial scale of most of these applications. Given these data limitations and the complexity of soil moisture dynamics, th...

Bio fuel plays an important role in the energy production of the forest industry. The initial moisture of the fuel typically varies between 50 63 w-%. A multi stage drying concept has been developed for the drying of wet bio fuel. To adjust the temperature levels in the multi stage drying system there must be a simple and fast method to define the fuel initial moisture. A method to define the i...

[1] Infrared (IR) land surface emissivity (LSE) with a high temporal and spatial resolution is very important for deriving other products using IR radiance measurements as well as assimilating IR radiances in numerical weather prediction (NWP) models over land. Retrieved from various satellite instruments, many LSE databases are available for operational and research use. Most are updated only ...

The diurnal variations in soil-gas helium concentration have been monitored at depths of 0.5-2.0 m in three localities in Colorado, Wyoming, and C•lifornia.'Bar•metric p e•su TM, air temperature, wind speed, soil temperature and moisture, relative humidity, and precipitation were also measured. The helium variation below a 1-m sampling depth usually did not exceed the analytical sensitivity of ...

[1] This study identifies soil moisture spatial variability patterns using measurements across different extents (i.e., field, watershed, and basin) and depths (i.e., from surface to root zone profile) from 18 different soil moisture field experiments. The spatial variability patterns are well represented by negative exponential functions between the mean and the coefficient of variation of soi...