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Variability of soil moisture and its relationship with surface albedo and soil thermal parameters over the Loess Plateau 1 1 2 Xiaodan Guan （管晓丹）, Jianping Huang （黄建平）, Ni Guo （郭铌）, Jianrong Bi1 （闭建荣）, Guoyin Wang1 （王国印） 1 Key Laboratory for Semi-Arid Climate Change of the Ministry of Education ， College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China 2Institute of Arid Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Lanzhou, 730020, China Submitted to Advances in Atmospheric Sciences April, 2009 __________________ * Corresponding Author: Dr. Jianping Huang ，email: hjp@ 1 ABSTRACT Data from July 2006 to June 2008 observed at SACOL (Semi-Arid Climate and Environment Observatory of Lanzhou University, 35.946o o N, 104.137 E, elev. 1961 m), a semi-arid site in Northwest China, are used to study seasonal variability of soil moisture, along with surface albedo and other soil thermal parameters, such as heat capacity, thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity, and their relationships to soil moisture content. The results indicate that surface albedo decreases with increases in soil moisture content, showing a typical exponential relation between the surface albedo and the soil moisture. The heat capacity, the soil thermal conductivity, and soil thermal diffusivity show large variations between Julian day 90-212 and 450-578.