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LAND
卷 11, 期 11, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/land11112018
关键词
topographic wetness index; compound topographic index; soil moisture; soil moisture regimes; SAGA wetness index; volumetric water content; flow algorithms; DEM filtration; DEM resampling; seasonal soil moisture
This study assessed the effectiveness of Topographic Wetness Index (TWI) in representing soil moisture across different timescales and calculation methods. The results showed that TWI performance was influenced by seasonal variation of soil moisture and greatly improved when using DEM filtration and resampling.
Topographic wetness index (TWI) is used as a proxy for soil moisture, but how well it performs across varying timescales and methods of calculation is not well understood. To assess the effectiveness of TWI, we examined spatial correlations between in situ soil volumetric water content (VWC) and TWI values over 5 years in soils at 42 locations in an agroforestry catena in Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA. We calculated TWI 546 ways using different flow algorithms and digital elevation model (DEM) preparations. We found that most TWI algorithms performed poorly on DEMs that were not first filtered or resampled, but DEM filtration and resampling (collectively called generalization) greatly improved the TWI performance. Seasonal variation of soil moisture influenced TWI performance which was best when conditions were not saturated and not dry. Pearson correlation coefficients between TWI and grand mean VWC for the 5-year measurement period ranged from 0.18 to 0.64 on generalized DEMs and 0.15 to 0.59 for on DEMs that were not generalized. These results aid management of crop fields with variable moisture characteristics.
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