As fresh water supplies become more unreliable, variable and expensive, the water-related implications of sustainable agriculture practices such as cover cropping are drawing increasing attention from California's agricultural communities. However, adoption winter remains limited among specialty crop growers who face uncertainty regarding use this practice. To investigate how crops affect soil ...

Abstract. Soil evaporation concerns water and our life support sources, which are important for agriculture or climate change prediction science. A simple instrument based on the nonsteady-state (NSS) technique soil measurement appears suitable. However, because NSS chamber is highly invasive, special care should be provided to correct wind speed influence process. a complex process that involv...

Geospatial methods were used to study the associations of the environmental thermal-hydrological regime with leprosy prevalence in the Oromia and Amhara regions of Ethiopia. Prediction models were developed that indicated leprosy prevalence was related to: (i) long-term normal climate grid data on temperature and moisture balance (rain/potential evapo-transpiration); (ii) satellite surveillance...

Daily Evapo-Transpiration (ET) was spatialized over a Mediterranean vineyard watershed by using ASTER data along with the S-SEBI model. Validation over seven contrasted sites was performed using an original procedure that allowed easier multi-site monitoring without being much expensive. It made use of neutron probe data for calibrating the HYDRUS-1D model that simulates vadoze zone water trans...

doi: 10.7185/geochemlet.1725 The Poll a’Mhuilt Member of the Stoer Group (Torridonian Supergroup) in Scotland has been heralded as a rare window into the ecology of Mesoproterozoic terrestrial environments. Its unusually high molybdenum concentrations and large sulphur isotope fractionations have been used as evidence to suggest that lakes 1.2 billion years ago were better oxygenated and enrich...