Modeling water retention curves of sandy soils using neural networks

Water Resources Research

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 3033-3040

  Schaap, Marcel G ^a,b   Bouten, Willem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b U S SALINITY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; WATER;

BULK DENSITY; MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; PREDICTION; SANDY SOIL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATER CONTENT; WATER RETENTION;

MODELLING; NEURAL NETWORKS; SOILS; WATER;

NEURAL NETWORK; SANDY SOIL; SOIL PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; WATER RETENTION; WATER RETENTION CURVE;

EID: 0029660470     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96WR02278     Document Type: Article

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