By Using EM50 data collection system

soil moisture and temperature in the freezing and snowmelt periods were collected in the Juntanghu watershed situated on the northern slope of Tianshan Mountains

Hutubi County

Xinjiang Autonomous Region. The software

such as SPSS 19.0

Excel and surfer 8

was used to process the collected data. Meanwhile

change of surface soil moisture was simulated by soil temperature. The results indicated that there was a vertical distribution of soil moisture. In the freezing period

the minimum soil moisture was observed at the depths of 10

32

and 48 cm; in the freezing period

the daily change of soil moisture was relatively little; and in the snowmelt period

the change was obvious

reaching a peak value at 17 to19 o'clock. The temperature of surface soil layer is able to simulate the soil moisture very well and the simulation has a better result both in temperature-rise and temperature-fall periods.