Estimating unsaturated soil hydraulic properties from tension disc infiltrometer data by numerical inversion

Water Resources Research

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2683-2696

  Simunek J ^a   Van Genuchten, M T ^a  

^a U S SALINITY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVICE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MODEL; PUNISHMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SOIL; WATER CONTENT; WATER FLOW;

INFILTROMETER; SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; SOIL WATER;

EID: 0029659849     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96WR01525     Document Type: Article

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