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• — • m v (mean)
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Figure 1: Temporal evolution of the main ground variables measured during the Agriscatt’88 experiment:
surface soil moisture: m„ vegetation water content: m v , leaf area index: L. Each point is the average over
11 wheat fields. The range of m, is also given.
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