Probability distribution of solute travel time for convective transport in field-scale soils under unsteady and nonuniform flows

Water Resources Research

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 875-889

  Kavvas, M L ^a,c   Chen, Z Q ^a,c   Govindaraju, R S ^b   Rolston, D E ^c   Koos, T ^c   Karakas, A ^a,c   Or, D ^d   Jones, S ^e   Biggar, J ^c  

^a University of California Davis   (United States)

^b Kansas State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e University of Alabama   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOIL WATER; SURFACE WATER;

DENSITY; DISPERSION; FIELD EXPERIMENT; PROBABILITY; PULSE RATE; SOIL; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL WATER CONTENT; SOLUTE; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY; WATER CONTENT; WATER FLOW;

FIELD-SCALE; GROUNDWATER; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION; SOILS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 0029737968     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95WR03511     Document Type: Article

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