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Application of a simple soil water balance to characterise drought in natural veld
Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Natuurwetenskap en Tegnologie | Vol 10, No 1 | a481 |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/satnt.v10i1.481
| © 1991 A. L. du Pisani
| This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 08 July 1991 | Published: 08 July 1991
Submitted: 08 July 1991 | Published: 08 July 1991
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The characterisation of drought is something which has caused much debate and investigation and is even in the nineties still a thorny problem. This article describes a method whereby drought in natural veld is characterised by using a soil water balance to build a "climatology" of soil water content. The real time situation is then compared to the "soil water climate" and described in terms of probabilities.
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