Research Letter

Application of a simple soil water balance to characterise drought in natural veld

A. L. du Pisani
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

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A. L. du Pisani,, South Africa

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Abstract

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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