Soil moisture is an essential climate variable influencing land–atmosphere interactions, an
essential hydrologic variable impacting rainfall–runoff processes, an essential ecological …

Soil management influences physical properties and mainly the soil hydraulic functions.
Their measurement becomes one of the research preferences in this branch of applied soil …

This chapter introduces the reader to the theory and applications of inverse modeling for
parameter estimation of soil hydraulic functions, using various proven experimental …

An inverse procedure was used to estimate the soil hydraulic characteristics of a two-layered
soil system—soil surface crust and subsoil—from data obtained during a tension-disc …

Within the scope of the HAPEX-Sahel experiment, the hydrological functioning of two small
nested catchments was studied at two different scales: the plot scale (of the order of 100 m2) …

Among the three sites distributed along the West African latitudinal gradient in the AMMA-
CATCH observation system, the experimental setup in the Niamey area of south-west Niger …

HAPEX-Sahel was an international experiment designed to provide the field data needed to
model the climate of the Sahel and its dependence on land surface conditions. The design …

Temporal stability of spatial distributions of soil moisture are usually observed after repeated
surveys of soil moisture across an area. To understand how temporal stability of soil …

Eddy‐covariance measurements of CO2 exchange above a Sahelian savanna consisting of
small shrubs over a near‐continuous herb layer were made during the HAPEX‐Sahel …

The drought in the African Sahel, persisting since 1968, emphasizes the vulnerability of local
water resources to climatic variations and land use changes in this semiarid environment …