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What is a soil moisture budget?

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A soil moisture budget tracks the inputs and outputs of water in soil. At it's simplest form it tracks actual evapotranspiration, potential evapotranspiration and precipitation across a year for a given location. The model assumes that the first 100 mm of precipitation after P>Ep recharges the soil, the remainder of precipitationin this category is then surplus. The first 100 mm of precipitation when P

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